All professional politicians know that an outright lie will end their career.
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This wasn't an outright lie, but it was misleading.
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She accuses the agency of an 'outright lie'.
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But it was soon interpreted or taken up as a euphemism for an outright lie.
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He called the episode outrageous distortion and an outright lie, as well as dangerous and irresponsible.
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