Meanings
comparative more lyingly · superlative most lyingly
- In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.
He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Bosnia.
2001 September 24, Christopher Hitchens, “Of Sin, the Left, and Islamic Fascism”, in The Nation1 more example
And now is there a third derivative From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed, A spurious portrait to a faithless life, And bearing lyingly the libelled name Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt.
1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham
Origin
Translations
Polish kłamliwie
- kłamliwieTranslations
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