Crossword-Solution: LYING 5 letters, 188 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Lying	p. pr. & vb. n.	of Lie
Lying	p. pr. & vb. n.	of Lie
Lying	p. pr. & vb. n.	of Lie, to tell a falsehood.
Lying	p. pr. & vb. n.	of Lie, to be supported horizontally.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
LYING	anagram	LIGNY

We have 188 clues for the answer “LYING”

Clue	Answers
"Advertising is legalized __": Wells	1 answer
"I'd love to hang out some time, no ___!"	1 answer
"You aren't ___!"	1 answer
Ananias' forte	1 answer
Bearing false witness	1 answer
Being deceitful	1 answer
Being dishonest	1 answer
Being horizontal... or being crooked	1 answer
Being situated	1 answer
Breaking a commandment	1 answer
Breaking one of the Commandments.	1 answer
Cause of nasal growth?	1 answer
Challenging the Polygraph	1 answer
Committing perjury	1 answer
Con artist's skill	1 answer
Concocting a tale	1 answer
Covering up the truth	1 answer
Deceiver's activity	1 answer
Dishonest, in a way	1 answer
Emulating Ananias.	1 answer
Failing the polygraph	1 answer
Falsifying	1 answer
Fibbing	1 answer
Fisherman's resort?	1 answer
Flunking a polygraph	1 answer
Fooling the polygraph	1 answer
In a horizontal position	1 answer
In a prone position	1 answer
In a recumbent position	1 answer
Inventing facts	1 answer
Inventing things	1 answer
Making stuff up	1 answer
Making things up	1 answer
Making up stories	1 answer
Misstating.	1 answer
Not being straight	1 answer
Not telling the truth	1 answer
Not upstanding, in either sense of the word	1 answer
Offering "alternative facts"	1 answer
Perjurer's predilection	1 answer
Perjuring oneself	1 answer
Possible cause of a spanking	1 answer
Prevaricator's penchant	1 answer
Problem for Pinocchio	1 answer
Prone or supine	1 answer
Pulling a fast one	1 answer
Reason for a spanking, maybe	1 answer
Situated, as a golf ball	1 answer
Spinning a yarn	1 answer
Staying at anchor	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERAET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with LYING (5)

The bed was tilted against the wall by day, and let down at 6:30, when it filled nearly half the room; and all the boys slept in it, except Michael, lying like sardines in a tin.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Still the hunter sees its traces Scattered far o’er hill and valley; Sees the giant bulrush growing By the ponds and water-courses, Sees the masses of the Wawbeek Lying still in every valley.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said: “O you most detestable of animals! through a lying dream of my father’s, which he saw in his sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace as if I had been a girl: what shall I now do to you?” With these words he stretched out his hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he might beat the lion.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

After lying there about three quarters of an hour, I nerved myself up again, and started on my way, through bogs and briers, barefooted and bareheaded, tearing my feet sometimes at nearly every step; and after a journey of about seven miles, occupying some five hours to perform it, I arrived at master’s store.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

She was standing lost in thought, leaning upon her pitchfork, her sunbonnet lying beside her on the ground.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Quotes with LYING (3)

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagini…

Louis de Bernieres Captain Corelli's Mandolin

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this --One of you is lying.

Dorothy Parker

You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.

George Carlin Brain Droppings

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 112 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).