The phrase "a form of lying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different types or methods of deception or dishonesty.
Example: "Some people believe that exaggerating the truth is just a form of lying."
Alternatives: "a type of deception" or "a kind of dishonesty."
If you want to be unkind, they are a form of lying through pictures.
give the play a satisfying ending would be, for me, a form of lying to the audience.
Laura thinks that getting things badly wrong is a form of lying to oneself and therefore as culpable as lying.
What resulted he would later transcribe for forwarding to his publisher, but never revise, in principle he regarded revision as a form of lying.
The idea that art is a form of lying is ancient; more modern is artist-as-infantile-genius, who plays rather than works and is often suspected of pulling the wool over the good citizen's eyes.
"Saying what you believe others want to hear is of course a form of lying," Knausgaard writes and in doing so seems to revel in depicting himself as a narcissist, coward and single-minded egotist.
Vranyo is a Russian word for lying — a special form of lying.
A fourth form of lying is shorthand -- the truth is changing so quickly that to detail every shift would in fact present something as true that could very quickly become false.
The books are linked by their ruminations on writing as an indispensable form of lying, and by a deeper, less sardonic pursuit of mental companions and a cosmic judge for their dubious narrators.
(Admittedly, I still get a charge when a TGIF waiter cards me). I would argue that Botox, fillers and plastic surgery are an acceptable form of lying, so what's the big deal if I keep the truth from Eva?
The appeals court did not sanction all forms of lying, but did conclude that evidence related to the market in which the misstatement occurred could show the certain information did not play a meaningful role in the transaction.
