Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a lying manner; falsely; by telling lies.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a lying manner; falsely.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.

Etymologies

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From lying + -ly.

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Examples

  • And that little adventure sure paid for itself, just like they (lyingly) claimed that it would, right, jackass?

    Think Progress » VIDEO: The GOP’s Solution To Everything — Let’s ‘Start Over’ 2010

  • Yeah, maybe he should constantly (and lyingly) proclaim himself victorious, lie about his profession and write useless nonsensical drivel to prove himself “worthy”, jerkoff

    Think Progress » Rep. Trent Franks: African-Americans were better off under slavery. 2010

  • He clearly attacks the Kantian division of the real and apparent worlds (the reality perceived by our senses, according to Kant, is the apparent world, while the true reality exists outside of perception) in Twilight of the Idols, where he writes “The ‘apparent’ world is the only one: the ‘real’ world has only been lyingly added.”

    Nietzsche the Pantheist? | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • They are, by the way, smaller than Scope 2 emissions and much smaller than Scope 1 emissions (which are the things you lyingly claim were the ONLY things considered.) In 2008 total GHG emissions in New York City were 53.3 MMTCO2e,9. 0 percent below 2005 base year emissions of 58.6 MMTCO2e.

    Matthew Yglesias » Vancouver Suffering From Snow Shortage 2010

  • While the Democrats verbally assail the Republican policies in Iraq, the Democrats too are playing the same game - how can the U.S. stay in Iraq and control the Iraqi oil, and at the same time lyingly convenience the American people that the U.S. should scale down its military operations.

    Poll: Approval Of Congress Lowest In Decade 2009

  • Not "we were 'stay the course' at first but we've changed," no, he said (lyingly) "never."

    Ellis Weiner: A Tale of Two Georges 2008

  • It was the old Catholic order of things which, they lyingly declared, was the parent of all the social injustice of the time and which had therefore to be ended.

    Short essay on the French Revolution de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • It was the old Catholic order of things which, they lyingly declared, was the parent of all the social injustice of the time and which had therefore to be ended.

    Archive 2007-08-19 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Bush lyingly implied that this was new information, when in fact he knew -- had to know -- that the "evidence" in British hands was the same set of documents he had been offered by Berlusconi almost a year and a half earlier, which had been declared to be bogus.

    Libby's Down: Now Let's Get to the Real Story 2007

  • It was this scheme that Vice President Dick Cheney and then National Security Director Condi Rice were mendaciously citing when they referred ominously to a mushroom cloud threat in the fall of 2002, and that Bush lyingly referred to in his 2003 State of the Union message, when he said: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

    Commemorating 9-11 by Impeaching the President 2006

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