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an accident" ], "synonyms":[ "dishonest", "mendacious", "untruthful" ], "near synonyms":[ "erroneous", "fallacious", "false", "misleading", "untrue", "double-dealing", "hypocrite", "hypocritical", "insincere", "mealymouthed", "smooth-tongued", "two-faced", "perjurious" ], "near antonyms":[ "candid", "open", "plainspoken", "straightforward", "earnest", "sincere", "true", "conscientious", "moral", "principled", "scrupulous", "dependable", "reliable", "trustable", "trustworthy", "trusty", "decent", "ethical", "honorable", "just", "respectable", "righteous", "right-minded", "straight", "upright", "upstanding", "virtuous" ], "antonyms":[ "honest", "truthful", "veracious" ] }, "as in mendacity , prevarication":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "equivocation", "mendacity", "prevarication", "artifice", "cheating", "cozenage", "craft", "craftiness", "crookedness", "crookery", "cunning", "cunningness", "deceit", "deceitfulness", "deception", "deceptiveness", "dishonesty", "dissembling", "dissimulation", "double-dealing", "dupery", "duplicity", "fakery", "foxiness", "fraud", "guile", "guilefulness", "wiliness", "chicane", "chicanery", "fraudulence", "hanky-panky", "jugglery", "legerdemain", "mountebankery", "obliquity", "skulduggery", "skullduggery", "subterfuge", "swindling", "trickery", "wile", "falsehood", "falsity", "fib", "untruth", "hypocrisy", "insincerity", "sanctimoniousness", "two-facedness", "artfulness", "caginess", "cageyness", "deviousness", "shrewdness", "treacherousness", "underhandedness", "unscrupulousness", "covertness", "furtiveness", "secrecy", "shadiness", "sneakiness", "stealthiness", "oiliness", "shiftiness", "slickness", "slipperiness", "slyness", "smoothness" ], "near antonyms":[ "artlessness", "forthrightness", "good faith", "guilelessness", "ingenuousness", "sincerity", "candidness", "candor", "directness", "frankness", "openness", "plainness", "plainspokenness", "honesty", "probity", "dependability", "reliability", "reliableness", "solidity", "trustability", "trustiness", "trustworthiness", "decency", "goodness", "incorruptibility", "integrity", "righteousness", "truthfulness", "uprightness", "virtuousness" ], "antonyms":[] }, "to make a statement one knows to be untrue":{ "examples":[ "would I lie to you about that?" ], "synonyms":[ "fabricating", "fibbing", "prevaricating" ], "near synonyms":[ "forswearing", "foreswearing", "perjuring", "equivocating", "fudging", "paltering", "beguiling", "cozening", "deceiving", "deluding", "duping", "fooling", "gulling", "hoaxing", "hoodwinking", "kidding", "snowing", "taking in", "tricking", "defaming", "libeling", "libelling", "slandering", "traducing", "falsifying", "misreporting", "misrepresenting", "misstating", "distorting", "garbling", "dissembling", "dissimulating", "misguiding", "misinforming", "misleading" ], "near antonyms":[ "asserting", "swearing", "testifying", "authenticating", "confirming", "substantiating", "validating", "verifying" ], "antonyms":[] }, "to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{ "examples":[ "the train tracks lie just over that hill" ], "synonyms":[ "bearing", "extending", "going", "heading", "leading", "running" ], "near synonyms":[ "crossing", "cutting", "passing", "coursing", "following", "spanning", "traversing" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "to occupy a place or location":{ "examples":[ "I left the book lying on the counter" ], "synonyms":[ "bearing", "being", "sitting", "standing" ], "near synonyms":[ "commanding", "overlooking", "hanging around", "remaining", "resting", "staying", "sticking around", "tarrying", "awaiting", "waiting", "posting", "stationing", "dwelling", "residing" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "to remain out of sight":{ "examples":[ "paparazzi were lying in wait outside the restaurant, a well-known celebrity hangout" ], "synonyms":[ "hiding", "holing up", "lurking", "reposing", "skulking" ], "near synonyms":[ "slinking", "sneaking", "avoiding", "eluding", "evading" ], "near antonyms":[ "coming out", "materializing", "showing up", "turning up" ], "antonyms":[ "appearing" ] }, "type":[ "adjective", "noun", "verb" ] }, "lying (down)":{ "as in couching , reclining":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "couching", "reclining", "dozing", "dropping off", "napping", "nodding", "sleeping", "slumbering", "snoozing", "bunking", "perching", "roosting", "settling", "bedding", "crashing", "dossing (down)", "retiring", "turning in" ], "near antonyms":[ "arising", "getting up", "rising", "uprising", "arousing", "awakening", "awaking", "rousing", "wakening", "waking", "bestirring", "stirring", "reawakening", "reawaking", "shifting", "stirring" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "lying-in":{ "as in confinement , childbed":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "childbed", "confinement", "cesarean section", "caesarean section", "natural childbirth", "abortion", "miscarriage", "pregnancy", "birth pang", "contraction", "pains", "accouchement", "childbearing", "childbirth", "delivery", "labor", "parturition", "travail" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "lying up":{ "as in sleeping , resting":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "catnapping", "dozing", "dropping off", "napping", "nodding", "resting", "sleeping", "slumbering", "snoozing", "bedding (down)", "retiring", "turning in", "bunking", "perching", "roosting", "settling", "couching", "dossing (down)", "flopping (down)", "lying (down)", "reclining" ], "near antonyms":[ "arising", "getting up", "rising", "rolling out", "turning out", "uprising", "arousing", "awakening", "awaking", "bestirring", "stirring", "waking" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "lying back":{ "as in reclining":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "reclining", "lounging", "slouching", "squatting", "straddling", "flopping", "flumping", "planking", "plopping", "plumping", "plunking", "plonking", "sprawling", "spreading (out)", "stretching (out)", "basking", "kicking back", "lolling", "relaxing", "reposing", "resting", "perching", "setting", "sitting", "splaying", "expanding", "extending", "fanning (out)", "flaring (out)", "opening", "outspreading", "outstretching", "unfolding", "unfurling" ], "near antonyms":[ "arising", "getting up", "rising", "standing" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "verb" ] }, "lying low":{ "to remain out of sight":{ "examples":[ "The thief decided to lie low after a string of crimes." ], "synonyms":[ "hiding", "holing up", "lurking", "lying", "reposing", "skulking" ], "near synonyms":[ "slinking", "sneaking", "avoiding", "eluding", "evading" ], "near antonyms":[ "coming out", "materializing", "showing up", "turning up" ], "antonyms":[ "appearing" ] }, "type":[ "phrase" ] } }