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lie to

verb

  1. intr, adverb nautical (of a vessel) to be hove to with little or no swinging
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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“At least since I was 8. I had to lie to get by.”

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It tells the story of a wife who believes she is going insane because her criminal husband continues to lie to her.

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"It would be a lie to say that no-one is worried, to be honest," she tells us, "but we still feel we have a duty to our country to say the truth, to preserve democracy, and the rule of law."

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Prosecutors, for their part, derided Sanders in court and to the press as a desperate hack willing to lie to defend Scott Dekraai, a client accused of massacring eight people at a Seal Beach salon.

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She still uses drugs occasionally — “I’m not gonna lie to you” — but less than she used to, and she now takes medication for HIV.

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