"live a lie" meaning in English

See live a lie in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: En-au-live a lie.ogg [Australia] Forms: lives a lie [present, singular, third-person], living a lie [participle, present], lived a lie [participle, past], lived a lie [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} live a lie (third-person singular simple present lives a lie, present participle living a lie, simple past and past participle lived a lie)
  1. (idiomatic) To conceal something about oneself, without the knowledge of which others cannot know one's true character or perspective. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-live_a_lie-en-verb-RL~CSwI- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for live a lie meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "be oneself"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lives a lie",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "living a lie",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived a lie",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived a lie",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "live a lie (third-person singular simple present lives a lie, present participle living a lie, simple past and past participle lived a lie)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To conceal something about oneself, without the knowledge of which others cannot know one's true character or perspective."
      ],
      "id": "en-live_a_lie-en-verb-RL~CSwI-",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To conceal something about oneself, without the knowledge of which others cannot know one's true character or perspective."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-live a lie.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/En-au-live_a_lie.ogg/En-au-live_a_lie.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/En-au-live_a_lie.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live a lie"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "be oneself"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lives a lie",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "living a lie",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived a lie",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived a lie",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "live a lie (third-person singular simple present lives a lie, present participle living a lie, simple past and past participle lived a lie)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To conceal something about oneself, without the knowledge of which others cannot know one's true character or perspective."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To conceal something about oneself, without the knowledge of which others cannot know one's true character or perspective."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-live a lie.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/En-au-live_a_lie.ogg/En-au-live_a_lie.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/En-au-live_a_lie.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live a lie"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.