Usually means: Pretending to be someone else.
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  1. live a lie: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. live a lie: Merriam-Webster
  3. live a lie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. live a lie: Wiktionary

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  1. live a lie: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (live a lie)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To conceal something about oneself, without the knowledge of which others cannot know one's true character or perspective.

Similar:
give lie to, put lie to, blow someone's cover, misreveal, put to lie, play-act, masquerade, illude, stretch the truth, act the hypocrite, more...

Opposite:
live truthfully, be honest, be genuine, be authentic

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Similar:
give lie to, put lie to, blow someone's cover, misreveal, put to lie, play-act, masquerade, illude, stretch the truth, act the hypocrite, more...

Opposite:
live truthfully, be honest, be genuine, be authentic



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