It was shocking, but she was unable to prevent one dreadful lie piling up on the next.

And then there are all those horrible stories too absurd to be anything but dreadful lies.

And yet you come here, and tell me such a dreadful lie as you did just now, eh?

It would be dreadful to be caught out in a lie; dreadful at any time, but worse now, when he was being so friendly.

"I hope you haven't been believing the dreadful lies they've been printing about us."

"That's a dreadful lie, your teeth are clicking!"

A lie--and such a dreadful lie as that?

I had him picked up out of the kindness of my heart, but in return he told me a pack of the most dreadful lies.

The stone was used in antiquity by the Magi, being described by Pliny the Elder as one of their "dreadful lies".

Joachim Du Bellay once wrote of a woman, "Matilda told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp, and stretch one's eyes."