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English
Etymology
lying + -ly
Adverb
lyingly (comparative more lyingly, superlative most lyingly)
- In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.
1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham: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.
2001 September 24, Christopher Hitchens, “Of Sin, the Left, and Islamic Fascism”, in The Nation:He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Bosnia.
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