Sentence examples for downright lie from inspiring English sources

For too long, those who haven't served on the ground in these wars have been allowed fear monger, distort, and downright lie about the issue - and politicians and the media have largely been too eager to accommodate them.

The £2bn of supposed extra money for the NHS is a downright lie because they have consistently cut the NHS.

"Be sure to lock the doors," she'd said, to which he'd replied that he always locked them, this being a downright lie.

Judy Dillon, who was Mr. Buchmann's assistant at WBAB and has since followed him to WAXQ, said: "That's a downright lie.

Of course the polarisation of old and young rests on a fallacy, if not a downright lie: that all young people possess perfect skin and gleaming hair, have non-stop sex, are bursting with energy and are never lonely.

Ms Bours said it was a "downright lie" to say UKIP wanted to privatise the NHS.

How do I help them through this stressful time without platitudes or downright lies?

It is often not to expose downright lies so much as to uncover inconsistencies which suggest flaws in the memory process.

In many cases he was right, and the GOP candidate delivered few downright lies, although he also traded in what he once referred to as "truthful hyperbole".

"It's illegal to pay city salaries out of the capital budget, so they're misinformed or downright lying," he said.

Over a thousand families who have faced, one by one, the same institutionally sanctioned obfuscation, delay, obstruction and downright lying as the Liverpool fans' families.