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Synonyms of lying in English:

lying


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noun

1‘she was no good at lying’

SYNONYMS
untruthfulness, fabrication, fibbing, perjury, white lies, little white lies
falseness, falsity, dishonesty, mendacity, mendaciousness, perfidy, perfidiousness, lack of veracity, telling stories, invention, misrepresentation, deceit, duplicity, dissimulation, dissembling, pretence, artifice, guile, double-dealing, underhandedness
informal kidology
ANTONYMS

telling the truth, honesty


adjective

1‘he's a lying, cheating snake in the grass’

SYNONYMS
untruthful, false, dishonest, mendacious, perfidious, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, duplicitous, dissimulating, dissembling, double-dealing, two-faced, Janus-faced, guileful, underhand, disingenuous
informal crooked, bent, sneaky, tricky
archaic hollow-hearted
ANTONYMS

truthful, honest