Sentence examples for downright lying from inspiring English sources

"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.

There is way too much innuendo, deception and downright lying going on.

Suzanne Kurtz, communications director for the Republican Jewish Coalition, spent her afternoon knowingly misleading -- if not downright lying -- to reporters.

Rents in Wellington have skyrocketed in the past year, leaving young residents floundering for some extra cash to pay the bills and downright lying to beat the competition to a half-way decent flat.

With this assumption, we will now be able to discern Trump's values rhetoric (which is core and unmovable) from his political rhetoric (which is transient, varies based on the situation -- and often exposes him to either making things up or just downright lying).

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.

Both men are known for skirting around the truth, using exaggeration and in some cases, downright lies to garner attention (and in Barnum's case, ticket sales).

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".

We accept the frailty of human memory as an occupational hazard but what impact are we having on shaping history if we are documenting misinformation, mis-memories and downright lies?