“All people lie,” Dr. House said. And he is right, only few recognize this. The lucky ones only deceive themselves. No wonder, after all, there was a joke about tomorrow that this is a mystical space where desires come true, and a person achieves goals. Let's talk today about lies and about a verb that is directly related to the noun.
Value. Silence and deceit
We know from an early age that to lie is to distort the actual state of things. But are there any other meanings of the same? We learn from the explanatory dictionary:
- To lie, to tell a lie.
- Acting wrong, wrong; fake it.
- Chatting, talking nonsense.
- “You're lying!” Expression of disagreement, protest, self-righteousness or superiority (colloquial).
But there is something that the explanatory dictionary does not know. He does not know that silence can be a hoax. Paul Ekman, a pioneer in the study of lies, wrote that the silence of truth is also a lie. And this is interesting, because most people do not think so. For example, Philip Roth, who recently left this mortal world, has the novel “The Human Brand”. Here, the main character uses the principle of “if you haven’t been asked, then don’t speak” and weaves a fantastic web of lies around him, in which he eventually gets stuck. So deception applies not only to words, but also to silence.
Sentences with the word
Concrete examples need to be acquired on the abstract skeleton of concepts, and then the "organism" will fully breathe, and knowledge will become full-blooded. So the examples are:
- Yes, he is lying. I did not take any hours. If you want, search me, I will not exact you for it.
- Of course, the concert was good: the instruments were upset, the singer lied all the time, like my old watch. And what is most annoying, even the buffet was not where stress could be seized.
- Maybe stop lying? This is, after all, indecent. No need to compose what and where you caught the fish, as then fought off sharks. Grandfather, go to bed. We are scientists, Hemingway also read.
- You're lying! I will not work 6 days a week while you will look for my partner. The chief will warm the bones in Hawaii, and I sit-sit in this permafrost. No, let’s get my labor; I quit.
Yes, picturesque examples came out. Even a little strange. We hope that the reader has learned that lying is bad.
Synonyms
One could write a whole philosophical essay on the topic "Synonyms of Lies." But we will not do this. And just confine ourselves to the usual synonyms for the word "lie":
- cheating;
- cart;
- nonsense;
- artifice;
- fiction;
- nonsense;
- crap.
The list could be longer, but the rest we pass on to the reader. Let him search for other replacements for the object of study, if he does not like it or if he lacks the given nouns.
Everything that we wrote here is pure truth and does not apply to the word “lies”. Or rather, it refers, but as an antonym. The final speech does not imply a moral attitude to speak only the truth. Let's just say: try, if possible, not to lie. The experience of life shows that categorical promises (even those that are given to oneself) are difficult to fulfill. Therefore, you need to leave the right to make a mistake, and then everything will turn out more or less safely. And if you are a maximalist, then in the end you can achieve nothing at all.