Lyingly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.

    "And now is there a third derivative From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed, A spurious portrait to a faithless life, And bearing lyingly the libelled name Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt."

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"And now is there a third derivative From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed, A spurious portrait to a faithless life, And bearing lyingly the libelled name Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt."

Etymology

From lying + -ly.

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