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live a lie

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live a lie
to live a life that is dishonest because you are pretending to be something that you are not, either to yourself or to other people. Walker, who admitted that he was gay last year, spoke of the relief he felt at no longer having to live a lie.
See also: lie, live
live a lie
to spend your life as someone else. For all of his adult life, he lived a lie and didn't confess even to his family that he was a spy.
See also: lie, live
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Many of us who are in his age range and were raised Catholic and came from small towns didn't choose to live a lie and harm people for our own benefit.
"Gay American" by D'Ambra, Michael J. / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
To do their jobs, Sullivan and Costigan both must live a lie, one pretending to be good, the other pretending to be bad.
SCORSESE RETURNS TO FORM WITH ELECTRIFYING `DEPARTED' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
D'Emilio shows that Rustin refused to live a lie surrounding his sexuality.
The lessons of Bayard Rustin by Wright, Kai / The Progressive
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