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

“The only person he cannot lie to is himself when he’s alone,” Carr said.

From Los Angeles Times

“I’ll just lie to them,” he added.

From The Wall Street Journal

But that doesn’t mean we should lie to ourselves about the FBI’s mission and history, or pretend that Patel has desecrated a noble, principled and independent institution.

From Salon

Of the many artists Hawke has honored on screen, he has never depicted one so touchingly diminished — someone so consumed with envy who nonetheless cannot lie to himself about the beauty of the art around him.

From Los Angeles Times