There's no direct lie, except that the Soviets say they didn't have anything to do with it.

Whilst making this reflection, chance seemed, as it were, to give him the lie direct.

That last was a direct lie, but it tended to get people off her back for a while.

I do admire the way you did not quite tell all the truth and yet avoided a direct lie.

You've been caught in a direct lie about your work.

These direct lies, however, taken alone, do not constitute the heart of the perjury committed by the President.

The managers called this a direct lie because the President did not mention 1995.

They felt that honest dealing with others meant more than avoiding direct lies.

She had to tread carefully and just avoid direct lies.

It did not occur to me that an officer would tell a direct lie.