The term lying truly only has one meaning, but when people say that someone is lying it can have a range of power. For example, a person could tell a lie as small as which hand he had the dollar in when playing with a friend. If the friend guesses write and the person denies it, they’re lying. That is truly a lie, but its meaning has no power. Let’s say a person lies and the lie causes severe problems and affects everybody. Like in the novel Othello by William Shakespeare, the main character Othello lies and deceives everyone into hating and killing each other causing so much trouble and chaos. The crimes Othello committed in that novel represented the worst type of lying that could be done by someone. Lying has all levels of strengths which makes the definition so hard to make out, but the true meaning of lying is when a person tells another person something that isn’t true or that never happened. Whether it be if they’re sick or not to get out of school, or that they’re innocent even though they committed a crime to get out of jail, all these are examples of lying.
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