The phrase "act of lying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the action or behavior of telling a lie or being dishonest.
Example: "The act of lying can damage trust and relationships between individuals."
Alternatives: "deed of deception" or "instance of falsehood."
The act of lying itself was often more annoying to me than the subject of the lie; I would probably date somebody who had previously cheated on a partner, but not somebody who would cheat and then lie about it so well.
This is because 'lie' is not an achievement or success verb, and an act of lying is not a perlocutionary act.
For instance, the decision-maker's own act of lying can be referenced in all possible outcomes, and treated differently from others' acts of lying.
The existence of an act of lying does not depend upon the production of a particular response or state in the addressee (Mannison 1969, 135; Wood 1973: 199; MacCormick 1983, 9 n. 23; but see Reboul 1994).
While he would discern no negative valence in such an act of lying ("What Jews?") and would instead see a positive valence, the Ross-Beauchamp-Childress approach would ascribe a negative valence to any act of lying, but would assign zero weight to that element in coming to the conclusion that lying is permissible in this particular context due to a host of countervailing positive factors.
If you jump to punish without understanding the intricacies behind the act of lying, you will just break down your relationship instead of emphasizing that your job is to teach telling the truth while also understanding what your teen is struggling with so he can get the help he needs.
Since it is inconceivable that these two things should exist together, I am forbidden ever to act on the maxim of lying to get money.
The act ends with Andre speaking out of turn to accuse Nancy Lee of lying.
One might be surprised to find Dorothy I. Burge at the trial of Jon Burge, a former Chicago police commander who is accused of lying about acts of alleged police torture and is charged with perjury.
Siobhan, Sara, Keren – I should never have compared your tribute acts to that useless bunch of lying sellouts, the Lib Dems and I'm sorry".
When a person is going through long periods of lying they will start to act very oddly.
