Sentence examples for transparent lie from inspiring English sources

Remember that time that Falcon Heene's transparently dishonest parents were caught in a transparent lie right to Wolf Blitzer's face, and Wolf Blitzer was the only person in America that did not instantly recognize what was going on?

I need not tell the transparent lie to avoid the wretched dinner, and so on.

The students Ms Mangum accused are white: Ms Mangum is black.The accusation was a transparent lie from the start.

Trump's denial that Russian interference remains an ongoing threat (followed by another transparent lie to conceal this absurdity).

I don't mean to be cynical (transparent lie), but am I alone in thinking John Williams' rediscovered classic Stoner wasn't really, well, that classic?

Trump's stunning agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial of Russian interference in our election followed by a transparent lie to run from his betrayal.

Transparent lies make people mad, and screenwriters are people, mostly.

Naturally, in a plot like this, her first answers are transparent lies.

Once the book was published, who cared what transparent lies you had to tell to save your life?

Behind his pathetically transparent lies, he remains mysterious, a work in progress, part man, part boy, part solitary savage.

Charles, is, in a word, a worm, who woos Celia with a mountain of preposterous, transparent lies.