lyingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Bosnia."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more lyingly (comparative)
most lyingly (superlative)