"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
2. self-serving lie = wyrachowane kłamstwo self-serving lie
  • Vicious, self-serving lies!
  • Intellectually, he knew it could all be a self-serving lie; instinctively, he knew it was the truth, at least as Horus believed it.
  • Mr. Flikshtein dismisses the complaint as a self-serving lie.
  • "The story should not come from us," Tyrion said, "or it will be seen for a self-serving lie."
  • Just because it sounded like a self-serving lie didn't mean it was.
  • "I dare because I'm a witch, and can tell truth from falsehood, and I'm tired of hearing your self-serving lies," Adagan said wearily.
  • Baker's own account of how he lost his teeth - supposedly after a beating involving a drug connection - is branded a self-serving lie by one of the women who knew him best.
  • Interpretation is at a minimum throughout, and Pollak soon reduces his all-powerful beast to a broth of pernicious, self-serving lies.
  • And because politics is never without purveyors of egregious, self-serving lies, the play is perpetually relevant.
  • That prosecutors can and do suborn the self-serving lies of jailhouse informants.
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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