Lie
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

FIB
Tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"

4 letters

REST
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

TALE
A trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"

MYTH
A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

5 letters

STORY
A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"

DWELL
Originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"

LIEIN
Originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country"

PORKY

RELAX
Cause to feel relaxed; "A hot bath always relaxes me"

6 letters

REPOSE
Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool"

CANARD
A deliberately misleading fabrication

LOUNGE
A room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait

SPRAWL
An ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about

REMAIN
Be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.; "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger"; "Carter remains the only President in recent history under whose Presidency the U.S. did not fight a war"

PALTER
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

7 letters

PERJURE
Knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury

CONSIST
Be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous; "Desires are to be satisfied only so far as consists with an approved end"

FALSIFY
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

FICTION
A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

LIEDOWN
Assume a reclining position; "lie down on the bed until you feel better"

WHOPPER
Something especially big or impressive of its kind

UNTRUTH
A false statement

RECLINE
Lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch"

8 letters

TALLTALE
An improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story

TELLAFIB

9 letters

FALSEHOOD
The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

TRYGVELIE
Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)

FISHSTORY

MENDACITY
The tendency to be untruthful

INVENTION
The act of inventing

DECEPTION
An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

TALLSTORY

TELLTALES

10 letters

EQUIVOCATE
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

TELLASTORY

11 letters

FABRICATION
The deliberate act of deviating from the truth

TARRADIDDLE
Pretentious or silly talk or writing

PREVARICATE
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

12 letters

MISSTATEMENT
A statement that contains a mistake

FLIMFLAMMERY

13 letters

PREVARICATION
The deliberate act of deviating from the truth

TELLANUNTRUTH

16 letters

TRYGVEHALVDENLIE
Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)

17 letters

MISREPRESENTATION
A willful perversion of facts