Sentence examples for habitual lying from inspiring English sources

Antisocial behavior is characterized by reckless irresponsibility, habitual lying and an indifference to the suffering of others.

The fur of the underparts is about twice as long as that of the upperparts and possibly represents an adaptation to the cat's habitual lying and crouching on cold ground.

They talked about the elder Mr. Dickey's infidelities (many) and habitual lying (like when he told his children he had once been married to a woman who died, a story he later admitted he made up) and awards (he won the National Book Award for his fourth book of poems) and brave moments (rescuing Christopher's brother, Kevin, from a ski lift) and writing.

Carion and the screenwriter Eric Raynaud, adapting a novel by Sergey Kostine (which was based on the actions of a real K.G.B. official, Vladimir Vetrov), want us to understand the everyday reality of espionage — for instance, the way habitual lying corrodes family life.

The anecdotal study she produced — "Tell My Horse," published in 1938 — is tetchy and belligerent, its author disgusted by the virulent racism of light-skinned mulattoes toward blacks in Jamaica, and as distinctly put out by the unreliability and habitual lying she experienced among the Haitians.

Trump's incompetence, habitual lying, and willingness to take advantage of the less fortunate are public knowledge to anyone who is paying even a little bit of attention.

He said he couldn't be truthful because lying was habitual, and that he feared I'd leave him if he told me everything.

A few months later, during one of his habitual runs, he lay down in a meadow and conceived a sort of abstract machine that settled it in an unexpected way.

In this process, our choices move along a spectrum of self-orientation which on one end lies habitual selfishness, where we just follow the dictates of unconscious patterns of interpretation and reaction.

People tell them at all levels — sometimes to seek a payoff and other times to avoid responsibility, some lying with guilt and others lying with a habitual delight [PDF].

For men, the 95th percentile of habitual vitamin D intake lies between 6.5 µg/day and 12.2 µg/day and for women, between 5.2 µg/day and 8.6 µg /day (Table  3).