different between flyingly vs lyingly

flyingly

English

Etymology

flying +? -ly

Adverb

flyingly (comparative more flyingly, superlative most flyingly)

  1. So as to fly; with light rapid movement.
    • 1971, Marie Corelli, The Murder of Delicia (page 153)
      Her feet moved flyingly without sound; her face, artistically tinted for stage-effect, was beautiful []

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lyingly

English

Etymology

lying +? -ly

Adverb

lyingly (comparative more lyingly, superlative most lyingly)

  1. In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.
    • 1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham
      And now is there a third derivative
      From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late
      The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed,
      A spurious portrait to a faithless life,
      And bearing lyingly the libelled name
      Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt.
    • 2001, Christopher Hitchens, "Of Sin, the Left, and Islamic Fascism", The Nation 24 September
      He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Bosnia.

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