lied
Example Sentences
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It also hid nuclear material and repeatedly lied to inspectors, as the International Atomic Energy Agency finally concluded in 2025.
He lost his seat in the Commons after an extraordinary legal tussle – a very rarely convened election court ruled he had lied about his Liberal Democrat opponent.
From BBC
Petrou had no problem “passing” for sighted, as she put it, into her 30s: “I just lied a lot. I said everywhere I went, ‘I lost my contact lenses.’
“So you lied,” I shot into the phone.
From Literature
When you’re constantly lied to, fooled and manipulated, then you have to play by the same absence of rules in order to win.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
