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Noun Concept
Categories: Deception, Articles with short description, Lying, All articles lacking reliable references
EN
lie  prevarication  white lie  emergency lie  untruth
EN
A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth WordNet 3.0
Definitions
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A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A lie is an assertion that is believed to be false, typically used with the purpose of deceiving or misleading someone. Wikipedia
Type of deception, an untruth or not telling the truth. Wikipedia Disambiguation
An untruthful statement Wikipedia Disambiguation
Intentionally false statement to a person or group made by another person or group who knows it is not wholly the truth Wikidata
A lie that is told in an emergency situation in order to spare someone or to prevent something bad from happening. OmegaWiki
A false statement made with the intention to deceive. OmegaWiki
A lie that is told to avoid offense and to maintain harmony. OmegaWiki
A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth. Wiktionary
A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it. Wiktionary
IS A
falsehood
intentional human activity
deception
proposition
HAS KIND
fib
jactitation
whopper
white lie
doublespeak
+5 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Taxil hoax
ZH
浮夸风
DERIVATION
beat around the bush
lie
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language
Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
OPPOSITE OF
truth
USE
deception
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
lie, prevarication
Wikipedia
EN
lie
Wikidata
EN
lie
Wiktionary
EN
lie, prevarication
OmegaWiki
EN
emergency lie, lie, prevarication, untruth, white lie
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
Bald-faced lie, Barefaced lie, Behavioral signals of lying, Bold-faced lie, Butler Lie, Communication of falsehood, Compound lie, Contextual lie, Dissemble, Emergency lie, Fibbed, Fibster, Haystack answer, Jocose lie, liars, lie of omission, lying by omission, Lying in trade, Lying liar, Lying through your teeth, Patent untruth, Polite lie, Porky pie, Prevarications, Religious views on lying
Wikidata Alias
EN
liar, lying, white lie

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