transparent lie

The transparent lie gave her back all the swagger she needed.

"I will," his sponsor told him, which was a transparent lie.

Naturally, in a plot like this, her first answers are transparent lies.

Philip knew very little about women, or he would have been aware that one should accept their most transparent lies.

"It was a transparent lie aimed at keeping us from reporting our findings."

Looking as if she'd never believe such a transparent lie, she buzzed on the intercom.

It never failed to amaze her that men should even attempt to tell such transparent lies.

Vladimir is ready to execute him out of hand for answering his questions with transparent lies.

We would never swear to such a transparent lie."

He wondered if anyone still believed the transparent lies printed in the inventoried material.

Transparent lies make people mad, and screenwriters are people, mostly.

"I'm pretty busy," Palfrey said, startled into a transparent lie by the sudden question.

For days, they had been refitting the frigate-behind a a mask of transparent lies.

Or did he think that I had slapped together some transparent lie to cover my complicity in the continued absence of the matrix?

Why should Ipuky tell such a transparent lie?

A transparent lie, but it would suffice.

It seems such a transparent lie.

Which," she added hotly, "was a transparent lie!

Charles, is, in a word, a worm, who woos Celia with a mountain of preposterous, transparent lies.

This was a transparent lie.

A transparent lie, actually.

"You believe that transparent lie?"

Klag continued: "And I'm still quite sober, as your transparent lie was obviously designed to test, so kindly give me another.

Should the Murdochs be charged with perjury for the transparent lies they told to the Select Committee?

Behind his pathetically transparent lies, he remains mysterious, a work in progress, part man, part boy, part solitary savage.