lie to

British  

verb

1. (intr, adverb) nautical (of a vessel) to be hove to with little or no swinging

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Example Sentences

The BBC has spoken to some of his former friends to trace the rise of a scammer brazen enough to lie to his dead friend's family and to run up tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid debts to his godmother along the way.

From BBC

“We do that. I used to lie to suspects all the time.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Ultimately what we want is just the truth of the matter, kind of like the police being able to lie to suspects to get the truth,’’ he added, echoing one of Praet’s defenses of the tactic.

From Los Angeles Times

While police lie to criminal suspects in an effort to solve crimes, Gennaco, the policing expert, said lying to the family member of someone who has been killed by police offers no such payoff.

From Los Angeles Times

Taiwan's Business Today also reported that locals also took issue with the "flippant" reaction of an agriculture bureau official, who was caught on camera as he photographed the wounded animal, saying, "I want my preschool daughter to be able to tell her classmates, 'My dad caught the baboon, I didn't lie to you.'"

From BBC