different between lying vs lyingly

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?la?.??/
• Hyphenation: ly?ing

Etymology 1

lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”) +? -ing.

Verb

lying

1. present participle of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”).

Noun

lying (plural lyings)

1. The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
   • 1854, Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXIV, translated by Philip Schaff et al.

     But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?

Derived terms

• low-lying
• high-lying

Translations

Etymology 2

lie (“to intentionally give false information”) +? -ing.

Verb

lying

1. present participle of lie (“to intentionally give false information”).

Noun

lying (plural lyings)

1. An act of telling a lie or falsehood.
   • 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year, "Apples of Sodom"

     […] he must do it by false propositions, by lyings, and such weak discourses as none can believe but such as are born fools […]

Translations

Adjective

lying (not generally comparable, comparative more lying or lyinger, superlative most lying or lyingest)

1. Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious
   • Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, Act 2 scene 1:

   • Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Induction scene 2:

Further reading

• lie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lingy

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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