Any thesaurus can point out the distinctions. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that if any of them had any guts they'd just come out and call him a liar. And there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that is what they think he is.
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Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: untruth
Synonyms: aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, complete distortion of the facts, corker, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, fish story, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, reviling, slander, subterfuge, tale, tall story, terminological inexactitude, vilification, white lie, whopper
Antonyms: fact, truth
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
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Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: verb 1
Definition: falsify
Synonyms: be untruthful, beguile, break promise, bull, con, concoct, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, dupe, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fib, forswear, frame, fudge, invent, jazz, jive, make believe, malign, misguide, misinform, misinstruct,mislead, misrepresent, misspeak, misstate, overdraw, palter, perjure, pervert, phony up, plant, prevaricate, promote, put on, queer, snow, soft-soap, string along, victimize
Antonyms: tell truth
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
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Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: verb 2
Definition: be flat
Synonyms: be prone, be recumbent, be supine, couch, laze, lie down, loll, lounge, nap, prostrate, recline, repose, rest, retire, siesta, sleep, sprawl, stretch out, turn in
Antonyms: stand
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
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Main Entry: lie
Part of Speech: verb 3
Definition: be situated
Synonyms: be, be beside, be buried, be established, be even, be fixed, be found, be interred, be level, be located, be on, be placed, be seated, be set, be smooth, belong, exist, extend, occupy, prevail, reach, remain, spread, stretch
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
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Main Entry: lie detector
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: machine for gauging truth
Synonyms: polygraph, polygraph machine, psychogalvanic skin response, psychogalvanometer
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
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Main Entry: white lie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: little lie
Synonyms: exaggeration, half-truth, harmless untruth, little white lie, mental dishonesty, near truth, partial truth, slight stretch, suggestio falsi, trivial untruth, untruth, well-intentioned untruth
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
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Main Entry: adjoin
Part of Speech: verb 1
Definition: link
Synonyms: abut, approximate, border, butt, communicate, connect, join, lie, lie beside, link, neighbor, touch, verge
Antonyms: detach, disconnect, divide, separate, unlink
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
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Main Entry: backbiting
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abuse
Synonyms: abuse, aspersion, backstabbing, belittlement, bitchiness, calumniation, calumny, cattiness, defamation, denigration, depreciation, detraction, disparagement, gossip, invective, lie, malice, obloquy, scandal, slander, spite, spitefulness, tale, traducement, vilification, vituperation
Antonyms: encouragement, praise
Source: Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)
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Main Entry: bluff
Part of Speech: noun 1
Definition: boast
Synonyms: braggadocio, bragging, bravado, bullshit, deception, delusion, facade, fake, false colors, false front, feint, fraud, front, humbug, jiving, lie, pretence, pretext, ruse, sham, show, stall, subterfuge, trick
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