Shaking his hand, I said, without committing myself to a downright lie: "I may have.

A downright lie became 100 percent truth.

I can't tell a downright lie and say I left him with Alf the fisher-boy, or anything like that.

Philip could not help reddening when he told a downright lie.

It was something.... One knows a downright lie.

I smiled at Honnister's description of himself which was a downright lie.

Instead of which she'd been caught in a downright lie.

The statement that the Cabinet Office were unaware of Werritty's existence is a downright lie.

I hadn't thought there'd be; the Devil didn't seem the kind of being who'd tell a downright lie.

I should be telling a downright lie if I said she was less beautiful than a peri.