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  • 31List of fictional television shows — Below is a list of television shows that have been made up in real television shows or other media.Fictional TV shows Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog * Edgar Eagle * Lifestyles of the Very Good parody of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous that is …

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  • 32straight\ face — noun A face that is not laughing or smiling. Mary told all the funny stories she knew to try to make Joan laugh, but Joan kept a straight face. It is hard to tell when Jim is teasing you. He can tell a fib with a straight face. When Bob fell into …

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  • 33lie — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. prevaricate, falsify, deceive; recline, rest, be situated; extend. See falsehood, deception, location, horizontal. Ant., fact, truth. lie detector II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An intentional… …

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  • 34lie# — lie vb Lie, prevaricate, equivocate, palter, fib mean to tell an untruth directly or indirectly. Lie is the straightforward word, flatly imputing dishonesty to the speaker {he lies, and he knows he lies Johnson} {the article . . . has… …

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  • 35Hollows (series) — The Hollows, (also called the Rachel Morgan series), is a series of detective/mystery novels in an urban fantasy alternate history setting by Kim Harrison that take place primarily in the city of Cincinnati and a nearby enclave across the Ohio… …

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  • 36Haskell (programming language) — Haskell Paradigm(s) functional, lazy/non strict, modular Appeared in 1990 Designed by Simon Peyton Jones, Lennart Aug …

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  • 37lie — I 1. noun loyalty had made him tell lies Syn: untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, invention, fiction, piece of fiction, falsification; (little) white lie, half truth, exaggeration; informal tall tale, whopper, taradiddle Ant: truth …

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  • 38falsehood — /fawls hood/, n. 1. a false statement; lie. 2. something false; an untrue idea, belief, etc.: The Nazis propagated the falsehood of racial superiority. 3. the act of lying or making false statements. 4. lack of conformity to truth or fact. 5. Obs …

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  • 39lie — I n 1. falsehood, untruth, prevarication, fib, white lie, little white lie, quibble, Inf. taradiddle; equivocation, evasion, fencing, Euph. departure from the truth; falsity, fiction, falsification, invention, concoction, fabrication, half truth …

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  • 40lie — I 1. noun it was a lie Syn: untruth, falsehood, fib, fabrication, deception, invention, (piece of) fiction, falsification, white lie; informal tall story, whopper; humorous terminological inexactitude Ant: truth 2. verb he had lied to the police …

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