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What is the adjective for lies?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs lay, lie, layer, lain, layerize and lye which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

lay
  1. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
  2. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
  3. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. untrained, inexpert, amateur, dilettante, unqualified, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, ordinary, non-professional, non-specialist, non-technical, inexperienced, unskilled, amateurish, avocational, backyard, jackleg, Sunday, unprofessional, unskillful, dilettantish, not professional, recreational, unpaid, leisure, part-time, unversed, unschooled, untutored, unpractised, untaught, unlicensed, novice, uncertificated, illiterate, uneducated, uncultivated, unchartered, undisciplined, incapable, wild, not trained, green, raw, unseasoned, unfledged, new, unpracticed, untried, unconversant … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Imbalances in knowledge between lay people and professionals make it difficult for lay people to assess a person's ability and competence.”
      “In the colonies, the lay vestry emerged to help with the management of church resources and property.”
laid
  1. (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.
liedlike
  1. Resembling a lied (type of German song) or some aspect of one.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Thus was born the notion of presenting operetta in liedlike terms.”
lies
  1. (Mid-Ulster) Great, wonderful
lyed
  1. Treated or prepared with lye.
layerwise
  1. One layer at a time.
layered
  1. Formed of layers.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. stratified, stratiform, laminate, coated, covered, veneered, bonded, composite, laminous, laminated, flaky, flakey, foliated, overlaid, faced, plastic-coated, nuanced, intricate, sophisticated, complex, complicated, detailed, elaborate, involved, convoluted, multifaceted, ornate, byzantine, interlaced, involuted, multifarious, caked, crusted, dusted, encrusted, glazed, painted, plastered, smeared, thick, encased, scaly, peeling, blistered, blistering … more
laying
  1. present participle of lay
  2. Synonyms:
      3. placing, putting, setting, depositing, settling, leaving, planting, positioning, sticking, resting, situating, stationing, stowing, balancing, bunging, deploying, deposing, disposing, dumping, emplacing, establishing, fixing, locating, bearing, dropping, parking, plonking, popping, positing, shoving, sitting, reposing, putting down, setting down, setting up, flinging down, throwing down, letting fall, putting in position, setting in position, installing, plopping, plunking, standing, propping, laying down, lodging, posing, arranging, plunking down … more
lied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of lie
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fibbed, fabricated, prevaricated, dissimulated, deceived, deluded, falsified, misled, bluffed, exaggerated, misrepresented, conned, dissembled, equivocated, hoaxed, hoodwinked, misinformed, perjured, pretended, beguiled, duped, misguided, misspoke, misspoken, misstated, tricked, bulled, distorted, forswore, forsworn, fudged, gaslighted, gaslit, misinstructed, overdrew, overdrawn, paltered, perverted, snowed, snew, snown, told a falsehood, told an untruth, concocted a story, departed from the truth, stretched the truth, strung along, told a lie, told stories, beared false witness … more
lying
  1. present participle of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fibbing, fabricating, prevaricating, dissimulating, deceiving, deluding, falsifying, misleading, bluffing, exaggerating, misrepresenting, conning, dissembling, equivocating, hoaxing, hoodwinking, misinforming, perjuring, pretending, beguiling, duping, misguiding, misspeaking, misstating, tricking, bulling, distorting, forswearing, fudging, gaslighting, misinstructing, overdrawing, paltering, perverting, snowing, telling a falsehood, telling an untruth, concocting a story, departing from the truth, stretching the truth, stringing along, telling a lie, telling stories, bearing false witness, breaking promise, committing perjury, faking it, forswearing oneself, having on, making up a story … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “You lying weasel. You handed me over and told them to do as they liked. Amyntas Perdikka heard them boasting of it this morning.”
      “Mr. Anderson spoke in a lying tone of voice with a sinister smile.”
lying
  1. present participle of lie (“to intentionally give false information”).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fibbing, fabricating, prevaricating, dissimulating, deceiving, deluding, falsifying, misleading, bluffing, exaggerating, misrepresenting, conning, dissembling, equivocating, hoaxing, hoodwinking, misinforming, perjuring, pretending, beguiling, duping, misguiding, misspeaking, misstating, tricking, bulling, distorting, forswearing, fudging, gaslighting, misinstructing, overdrawing, paltering, perverting, snowing, telling a falsehood, telling an untruth, concocting a story, departing from the truth, stretching the truth, stringing along, telling a lie, telling stories, bearing false witness, breaking promise, committing perjury, faking it, forswearing oneself, having on, making up a story … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “You lying weasel. You handed me over and told them to do as they liked. Amyntas Perdikka heard them boasting of it this morning.”
      “Mr. Anderson spoke in a lying tone of voice with a sinister smile.”
layering
  1. present participle of layer
  2. Synonyms:
      3. surfacing, resurfacing, overlaying, covering, veneering, coating, facing, skimming, glazing, paving, laminating, plating, electroplating, gilding, galvanizing, encrusting, anodizing, platinizing, galvanising, sheeting, foiling, protecting, zinking, zincing, finishing, nickeling, enamelling, enameling, tinning, foliating, sealing, enclosing, chroming, scaling, silvering, shielding, bronzing, blanketing, overspreading, carpeting, overlying, eclipsing, mantling, filming, canopying, submerging, extending over, painting, smearing … more
lained
  1. simple past tense and past participle of lain
laining
  1. present participle of lain
layerized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of layerize
layerizing
  1. present participle of layerize
lying
  1. present participle of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fibbing, fabricating, prevaricating, dissimulating, deceiving, deluding, falsifying, misleading, bluffing, exaggerating, misrepresenting, conning, dissembling, equivocating, hoaxing, hoodwinking, misinforming, perjuring, pretending, beguiling, duping, misguiding, misspeaking, misstating, tricking, bulling, distorting, forswearing, fudging, gaslighting, misinstructing, overdrawing, paltering, perverting, snowing, telling a falsehood, telling an untruth, concocting a story, departing from the truth, stretching the truth, stringing along, telling a lie, telling stories, bearing false witness, breaking promise, committing perjury, faking it, forswearing oneself, having on, making up a story … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “You lying weasel. You handed me over and told them to do as they liked. Amyntas Perdikka heard them boasting of it this morning.”
      “Mr. Anderson spoke in a lying tone of voice with a sinister smile.”
lying
  1. present participle of lie (“to intentionally give false information”).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fibbing, fabricating, prevaricating, dissimulating, deceiving, deluding, falsifying, misleading, bluffing, exaggerating, misrepresenting, conning, dissembling, equivocating, hoaxing, hoodwinking, misinforming, perjuring, pretending, beguiling, duping, misguiding, misspeaking, misstating, tricking, bulling, distorting, forswearing, fudging, gaslighting, misinstructing, overdrawing, paltering, perverting, snowing, telling a falsehood, telling an untruth, concocting a story, departing from the truth, stretching the truth, stringing along, telling a lie, telling stories, bearing false witness, breaking promise, committing perjury, faking it, forswearing oneself, having on, making up a story … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “You lying weasel. You handed me over and told them to do as they liked. Amyntas Perdikka heard them boasting of it this morning.”
      “Mr. Anderson spoke in a lying tone of voice with a sinister smile.”
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