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barefaced lie
noun
A falsehood told with utter confidence and without trying to conceal the fact that it is false, especially a planned or deliberate falsehood.
Exact(14)
"The cheque's in the post" still works, even though it is nine times out of 10 a barefaced lie.
For all of the editors' labors, the reception from independent scholars was not flattering; the official history explained that, once Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward drove the nation into famine, he "worked hard to correct" the mistakes, a judgment that a Dutch scholar called a "barefaced lie".
It was a barefaced lie.
This is a barefaced lie.
This is an absolute barefaced lie.
EM: Let me ask you about a barefaced lie.
Similar(46)
For Trump, though, nothing has been so effective as fabrication and barefaced lying.
Rather than tell barefaced lies, Moscow should perhaps boast – and warn the world – of its new-found proficiency.
In some instances, the accusers prefer barefaced lies, and in a Virginia race, the mouth-filling modifier has come out sounding like boldfaced lies.
Only recently, after the deaths of the last policemen involved, has it been possible to give the full story of police threats to witnesses, their concoction of evidence and barefaced lies.
Contrary to public mythology, politicians do not enjoy telling barefaced lies and aren't good at it.
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