lying

lying
n
1. untruthfulness, truthlessness, unveracity, unveraciousness, mendacity, mendaciousness; dishonesty, crookedness, deceit, deceitfulness, falseness, falsity, hypocrisy, double-dealing; guile, guilefulness, disingenuity, disingenuousness, uncandidness, unfrankness; fibbing, Psychiatry. mythomania.
adj
2. untruthful, unveracious, mendacious, forked-tongued; dissembling, disingenuous, insincere, hypocritical, uncandid, unfrank, guileful, mealymouthed; deceitful, dishonest, crooked, double-dealing, two-faced, Janus-faced; deceptive, misleading, false, fraudulent, untrue

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