Lie About

Definition: Lie About

Lie About

Verb

1. Hang around idly; "She did all the work while he lay around".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Lie About

Crosswords: Lie About

Wouldn't you lie about having a felon in the family to get a job like this? (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

Why would a vampire lie about who sired him. What's that, some kind of status symbol for the undead? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I can't lie about that. (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

And you asked that we should say things -- that we should say what we're thinking and not lie about things. (Magnolia; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson)

I wouldn't lie about it. (High Crimes; writing credit: Yuri Zeltser)

If you want to be well-liked, never lie about yourself and be careful when telling the truth about others. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Dogs Never Lie About Love : Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs (reference)

  (more book examples)

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(The big lie about busing).Credit: Library of Congress.

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As you have not lied about your name, you will not lie about your address.

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Women

Pakistan

Police are reluctant to take the complaint and sometimes are abusive toward the victim; the courts do not have consistent standards of proof as to what constitutes rape and what corroboration is required; and judges, police, and prosecutors are biased against female rape victims, tending towards a presumption of female consent and the belief that women lie about such things. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Finnish

olla hajalla (be spread out). (various references)

German

herumliegen (knock about, knock around, lie around). (various references)

Hungarian

hánykódik. (various references)

Manx

lhie mygeayrt. (various references)

Pig Latin

ielay aboutay

Romanian

trândãvi (dawdle, drone, laze, loaf, lounge, slack), nu face nimic (idle, it doesn't matter, laze, muck about, never mind), fi risipiţi, fi rãspândit peste tot, fi împrãştiat (straggle). (various references)

Spanish

pasar el tiempo sin hacer nada (lie around), estar esparcidos (lie around), estar en desorden (lie around), estar desordenado (lie around). (various references)

Thai

โอบล้อม (lie around), โกหกในเรื่อง (lay about), ทิ้งไว้เรี่ยรา�" (lie around). (various references)

Ukranian 

валятися (lie around, wallow, welter), бути розкиданим (lie around). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bailout, tabouli.

-2 letters: albeit, albite, boatel, boleti, lobate, obelia, oblate, outlie, tabuli.

-3 letters: aboil, about, beaut, biota, blate, bleat, blite, bloat, bluet, boite, botel, boule, built, buteo, butle, louie, lutea, obeli, table, telia, teloi, toile, tubae, tubal, utile.

-4 letters: abet, able, abut, alit, aloe, alto, auto, bail, bait, bale, bate, beat, beau, belt, beta.

+2 letters: absolutive, absolutize, automobile, obnubilate, orbiculate.

+3 letters: absolutized, absolutizes, automobiled, automobiles, boatbuilder, obnubilated, obnubilates, outbleating, rambouillet, tolbutamide.

+4 letters: abstemiously, ambulatories, boatbuilders, discountable, elucubration, equilibrator, incommutable, incomputable, interlobular, nebulization, questionable, questionably, rambouillets, subeditorial, tibiofibulae, tolbutamides, unnegotiable, unnoticeable, unobtainable, unprofitable.

+5 letters: arboriculture, elucubrations, equilibration, equilibrators, equilibratory, gubernatorial, insupportable, nebulizations, perambulation, polybutadiene, quotabilities, relubrication, republication, subcollegiate, subordinately, troublemaking, uncontainable, unmentionable, unmetabolized, unproblematic.

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