"lie" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Shaking his hand, I said, without committing myself to a downright lie: "I may have.
- A downright lie became 100 percent truth.
- I can't tell a downright lie and say I left him with Alf the fisher-boy, or anything like that.
- Philip could not help reddening when he told a downright lie.
- It was something.... One knows a downright lie.
- I smiled at Honnister's description of himself which was a downright lie.
- Instead of which she'd been caught in a downright lie.
- The statement that the Cabinet Office were unaware of Werritty's existence is a downright lie.
- I hadn't thought there'd be; the Devil didn't seem the kind of being who'd tell a downright lie.
- I should be telling a downright lie if I said she was less beautiful than a peri.
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