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Webster 1913 Edition


Lyingly

Ly′ing-ly

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adv.
In a lying manner; falsely.

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lyingly

lyingly

English

Adverb

lyingly (comparative more lyingly, superlative most lyingly)

  1. In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.
    • 2001: He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Bosnia. — Christopher Hitchens, ‘Of Sin, the Left, and Islamic Fascism’, The Nation 24 September 2001