Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: lied
IPA transcription: [l'aɪd]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: lied
    Meaning: a German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano
Usage examples
  • "If the man told you that, the man lied.
  • He'd said they wouldn't work, but he'd lied.
  • We shall prove that on this point the newspaper lied.
  • She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without hesitation, promptly, as a person does when sacrificing herself.
  • 'I cannot tell if the spectre lied, for never a step did I go towards finding the hollow, for two reasons:--one was that my neck was too precious for me to risk it in such a snare as that; the other, that no one could ever tell me where the spring-root was to be found.'
  • For while they have lied so shamefully against us and by means of lies wished to retain the people, God has constantly advanced His work, and been making their following ever smaller and ours greater, and by their lies has caused and still causes them to be brought to shame.
  • If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;