lyingly

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7

Definition of lyingly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  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.”
    “He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Bosnia.”

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Etymology

From lying + -ly.

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