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Discover LudwigThe phrase "tricked into lying" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when someone has been tricked or coerced into making a false statement, usually against their will. For example: The witness was tricked into lying by the criminal, who threatened his family if he refused.
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2. Trump would have the American people believe that Flynn was tricked into lying to the FBI.
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Any minute now, as I have it firmly printed in my memory, Leamas will push aside the barbed wire, climb the ladder, and, sprawled across the top of the Wall, stare down in horror at the dead body of the poor woman he has been tricked into betraying, lying on the other side.
Flynn's team argued for no prison time, but also suggested that FBI agents had tricked Flynn into lying to them.
The article about the 1001 law, the section of the federal code that was used to convict Martha Stewart, opened my eyes about the unfairness of a law that allows a federal agent to trick you into lying, making you violate a federal law.
In some cases, victims of sex trafficking are kidnapped by strangers, either by force or by being tricked into becoming involved through lies and false promises.
I take issue with the view that some men are tricked into paying child support by women who lie about being on the pill.
Ends with an Auden quote: "What but tall tales, the luck of verbal playing,/ Can trick his lying nature into saying/ That love, or truth in any serious sense,/ Like orthodoxy, is a reticence".
Flynn pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI but argued in pre-sentencing documents he had been tricked into being untruthful. .
Was Lee tricked into the release?
I was tricked into a natural childbirth.
How is a plant "tricked" into thinking it's spring?
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