"forms of lying" is a correct and usable phrase in written English and can be used when discussing the various ways someone can lie.
For example, "There are many forms of lying, from exaggerating the truth to making up stories to deceive."
Both were forms of lying.
He's co-written and edited two books on the subject of lying, and most recently, has been studying identity thieves and doctor shoppers looking for pills as modern forms of lying.
If you're not against all forms of lying -- even, or perhaps especially, when a high-ranking official claims that "the end justifies the means" -- and against excessive secrecy by government agencies, then by definition whatever the hell you are doing, it is not journalism.
Vranyo is a Russian word for lying — a special form of lying.
A love of fiction – that higher form of lying – is what binds them.
If you want to be unkind, they are a form of lying through pictures.
Laura thinks that getting things badly wrong is a form of lying to oneself and therefore as culpable as lying.
give the play a satisfying ending would be, for me, a form of lying to the audience.
"Saying what you believe others want to hear is of course a form of lying," Knausgaard writes and in doing so seems to revel in depicting himself as a narcissist, coward and single-minded egotist.
The books are linked by their ruminations on writing as an indispensable form of lying, and by a deeper, less sardonic pursuit of mental companions and a cosmic judge for their dubious narrators.
A fourth form of lying is shorthand -- the truth is changing so quickly that to detail every shift would in fact present something as true that could very quickly become false.
