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lyingly

lyingly adverb: in a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.

Adverb

lyingly (comparative more lyingly, superlative most lyingly)

  1. In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.
    • 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
    • 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 Nation

Forms of lyingly

comparativemore lyingly
superlativemost lyingly

Origin of lyingly

From lying + -ly.

Questions about lyingly

What does lyingly mean?
Lyingly means in a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.
What part of speech is lyingly?
Lyingly is an adverb.

Words near lyingly in the dictionary

  1. lying with
  2. lying-in
  3. lying-ins
  4. lyinger
  5. lyingest
  6. lyingly
  7. lyings
  8. lyings-in
  9. lyk
  10. lyke
  11. lyke gate

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