lying

lying
Synonyms and related words:
accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche, crawling, credibility gap, debasement, deceit, deceitful, deceptive, decumbency, decumbent, delusive, delusory, depression, dishonest, dishonesty, draped, duplicitous, duplicity, equivocal, FALSE, falsehood, falsification, fibbery, fibbing, flat, forsworn, groveling, hypocritical, knavish, loll, lolling, lounging, lowness, lying down, mendacious, mendaciousness, mendacity, misleading, mythomania, perfidious, perjured, perjury, prevaricating, prevarication, procumbent, prone, proneness, prostrate, prostration, pseudology, reclination, reclining, recumbency, recumbent, repose, reposing, resupine, roguish, shifty, shortness, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squatness, squattiness, stumpiness, subjacency, supine, supineness, treacherous, truthless, truthlessness, untruthful, untruthfulness, unveracious, unveraciousness, wrong

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  • Lying-in — is an old childbirth practice involving a woman resting in bed for a period of time before giving birth. Though the term is now usually defined as the condition of a woman in the process of giving birth, it previously referred to a period of bed… …   Wikipedia

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  • Lying — Ly ing, p. pr. & vb. n. of {Lie}, to be supported horizontally. [1913 Webster] {Lying panel} (Arch.), a panel in which the grain of the wood is horizontal. [R.] {Lying to} (Naut.), having the sails so disposed as to counteract each other. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Lying to — Lying Ly ing, p. pr. & vb. n. of {Lie}, to be supported horizontally. [1913 Webster] {Lying panel} (Arch.), a panel in which the grain of the wood is horizontal. [R.] {Lying to} (Naut.), having the sails so disposed as to counteract each other.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lying — pres part of lie Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. lying I …   Law dictionary

  • Lying-in — Ly ing in , n. 1. The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement; as, a lying in hospital. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of bearing a child. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lying-in — [lī′iŋin′] n. confinement in childbirth adj. of or for childbirth [a lying in hospital] …   English World dictionary

  • Lying — Ly ing, p. pr. & vb. n. of {Lie}, to tell a falsehood. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lying — mendacious, untruthful, *dishonest, deceitful Analogous words: *false, wrong: deceptive, *misleading, delusive, delusory Antonyms: truthtelling Contrasted words: honest, just, *upright, conscientious, scrupulous, honorable: candid, * …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • lying — [adj] dishonest committing perjury, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dissembling, dissimulating, double crossing*, doubledealing*, equivocating, false, falsifying, fibbing, guileful, inventing, mendacious, misleading, misrepresenting,… …   New thesaurus

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