"lie" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

lie sustantivo

lie + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 7
Lie group • Lie algebra • lie detector • lie detector test • lie detection • ...
lie + verbo
Kolokacji: 7
lie comes • lie says • lie tells • lie makes • lie goes • ...
verbo + lie
Kolokacji: 12
tell lies • believe one's lies • give the lie • spread lies • hear lies • ...
adjetivo + lie
Kolokacji: 84
big lie • white lie • outright lie • future lie • little lie • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 22
(2) white, single
Kolokacji: 2
(3) outright, flat
Kolokacji: 2
(4) future, old, flat-out
Kolokacji: 3
(5) True, direct, plain
Kolokacji: 3
(9) secret, magic
Kolokacji: 2
(10) bald-faced, barefaced
Kolokacji: 2
(12) elaborate, fantastic
Kolokacji: 2
(14) plausible, convincing
Kolokacji: 2
(15) grave, dangerous, harmless
Kolokacji: 3
(16) damnable, damn, Damned
Kolokacji: 3
(17) key, necessary
Kolokacji: 2
1. official lie = urzędowe kłamstwo official lie
  • Do not listen to the official lies, turn your head away.
  • Some apartheid-era hit men and police in their confessions have exposed decades of official lies.
  • Yet the agony of speaking to strangers now, of telling official lies, was more than she could endure.
  • As you recall from Vietnam, Americans deeply resent credibility gaps and official lies.
  • A lie, that last, but an official lie.
  • However, many of the 'official' lies are so deeply buried in the narrative of everyday life that they have become almost invisible.
  • This time around, with the administration's credibility ruined by Iraq, official lies about science didn't fly.
  • The Wright case arises, moreover, against a background of public disgust with official lies and misconduct.
  • The demonstrators rejected the explanation as another official lie.
  • In any case, contrary to the official lies, one thing is sure: these threats are not justified by the danger which Iraq would represent.
2. self-serving lie = wyrachowane kłamstwo self-serving lie
3. liberal lie = liberalne kłamstwo liberal lie
(19) polite, noble
Kolokacji: 2
(20) stupid, clever, clumsy
Kolokacji: 3
(21) bare-faced, bold-faced
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + lie
Kolokacji: 10
of lies • with lies • to lies • on lies • in a lie • ...

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