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duplicity: She was accused of lying while under oath.
--adj. 2 untruthful, false, mendacious, hypocritical,
dishonest, deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, treacherous,
perfidious: Whoever told you they had found the solution is a
lying scoundrel.
lyric adj. 1 melodic, song-like, musical, melodious, lyrical: Lyric
drama is no longer fashionable. 2 personal, subjective,
individual, idiosyncratic; sentimental, rhapsodic: He expresses
his own feelings in the lyric poems. 3 sweet, dulcet, graceful,
silvery, lilting, mellifluous, mellow, light: This song sounds
best when sung by a lyric tenor.
--n. 4 lyrics. libretto, book, words: Ira Gershwin wrote the
lyrics for much of George Gershwin's music.
lyrical adj. 1 See lyric, 1, above. 2 enthusiastic, ecstatic,
encomiastic, rapturous, rhapsodic, effusive, impassioned,
emotional, ebullient, exuberant, panegyrical: He waxed lyrical
whenever he spoke of his children.
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macabre adj. grim, ghastly, grisly, gory, gruesome, grotesque,
ghoulish, fiendish, dread, eerie, fearsome, frightful,
frightening, terrifying, terrible, dreadful, dire, morbid;
deathly, deadly, deathlike, ghostly, cadaverous: He told a
macabre story of how they survived by resorting to cannibalism.
The crypt had a macabre eeriness about it.
machiavellian
adj. deceitful, cunning, shrewd, crafty, wily, foxy, scheming,
tricky, perfidious, nefarious, treacherous, sneaky: Mr Williams
has concocted a truly machiavellian plan for getting the
pensioners to move out.