Sentence examples for clever lie from inspiring English sources

"It's a seductive argument, and it's a lie, a clever lie".

"You must avoid the snares of deceit and clever lies and devilish charm," said Jim Letten, the lead prosecutor.

"Fraud variations appear now and then, but the central engine never changes: tell clever lies to gullible people until they give you their money for nothing," Mr. Dooling writes.

But because people scorn to keep up, know what's what, People buy clever lies, gobs and gobs.

Perhaps there is a pretense in place that allows us to believe we will be immortalized, a clever, little lie that tells us we will never die.

The clever part lies in how it targets the ads.

The first image that comes to mind is classical: spaces reserved especially for Socrates, surrounded by Alcibiades and other lovely, clever youths, lying naked by the pool, engaged in conversations about the nature of virtue or of love.

A modern Holden Caulfield, he is just clever enough to lie himself into a corner and just dumb enough to sit there and swear once he's stuck.

The poem's "band of rivals" cavorting about the "steep stone gennels" exists in an aesthetic and spiritual torpor unable to "conceive a god whose temper-tantrums are moral/ And not to be pacified by a clever line/ Or a good lay…".

To avoid this sort of "You broke my Internet" issue, even savvier techies like Google's Matt Cutts have resorted to lying clever work arounds.

For some people, however clever they are, lying has helped them to survive, so there instincts are highly developed.