Usually means: Intentionally presenting false information as truth.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lying: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lying, lying, lying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lying, lying: Wordnik
  6. lying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lying: Wiktionary
  8. lying: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lying: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lying: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lying: Dictionary.com
  12. lying: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. lying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Lying (Bok book), Lying (Harris book), Lying (film), Lying (position), Lying (song), Lying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lying: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lying: Rhymezone
  18. Lying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. lying: Free Dictionary
  21. lying: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lying: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. lying: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. lying: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. lying: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lying: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. lying: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lying: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lying: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lying: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lying: Body Building
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See lie as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
noun:  An act of telling a lie or falsehood.
adjective:  Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious

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