Перевод: со всех языков на английский

с английского на все языки

to humbug money out of

  • 1 выудить деньги

    General subject: humbug money out from (у кого-л.), humbug money out of (у кого-л.), tap

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > выудить деньги

  • 2 camelar

    v.
    1 to butter up, to win over.
    2 to flirt with.
    3 to cajole, to canoodle, to butter, to butter up.
    * * *
    1 familiar (galantear) to flirt with
    2 familiar (engañar) to cajole, sweet-talk, get round
    1 familiar to cajole, sweet-talk, get round
    * * *
    VT
    1) (=persuadir) to cajole, win over
    2) [+ mujer] (=flirtear) to flirt with, make up to *; (=conquistar) to attract
    3) Méx (=mirar) to look into, look towards etc; (=espiar) to spy on; (=perseguir) to pursue, hound
    * * *
    verbo transitivo (Esp fam) to sweet-talk (colloq)

    camelar a alguien para que + subj — to sweet-talk somebody into + ing

    * * *
    = bluff, humbug, lead + Nombre + down the garden path, con, hoax.
    Ex. They are bluffed easily, and it is quite possible they will be bluffed again.
    Ex. More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex. Intelligent individuals often think that they cannot behave stupidly, but that is precisely what leads them down the garden path.
    Ex. A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex. He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo (Esp fam) to sweet-talk (colloq)

    camelar a alguien para que + subj — to sweet-talk somebody into + ing

    * * *
    = bluff, humbug, lead + Nombre + down the garden path, con, hoax.

    Ex: They are bluffed easily, and it is quite possible they will be bluffed again.

    Ex: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex: Intelligent individuals often think that they cannot behave stupidly, but that is precisely what leads them down the garden path.
    Ex: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.

    * * *
    camelar [A1 ]
    vt
    ( Esp fam) to sweet-talk ( colloq)
    camelar a algn PARA QUE + SUBJ to sweet-talk sb INTO -ING
    cameló al abuelo para que le diese dinero she sweet-talked her grandfather into giving her some money, she wheedled some money out of her grandfather
    * * *

    camelar vtr fam (convencer, conquistar) to win over: no intentes camelarme porque no pienso comprártelo, you can't talk me into buying it
    a ver si le camelo para que participe en el negocio, let's see if I can convince him to let me come in on the business
    ' camelar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    sweet
    * * *
    Fam
    1. [convencer] to butter up, to win over;
    me cameló para que lo ayudara he sweet-talked me into helping him
    2. [enamorar] to win the heart of;
    la cameló rápidamente he quickly set her heart aflutter
    3. Méx [observar] to watch, to observe
    * * *
    v/t fam
    sweet-talk fam ;
    camelar a alguien para que haga algo fam sweet-talk s.o. into doing sth fam

    Spanish-English dictionary > camelar

  • 3 camelo

    m.
    2 flirting.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: camelar.
    * * *
    1 familiar (galanteo) courting, flirting
    2 familiar (engaño) hoax, sham
    3 familiar (cuento) cock-and-bull story
    * * *
    masculino (fam) ( timo) con (colloq); ( mentira) lie

    es puro camelo — it's a pack of lies o (colloq) a load of bull

    esa noticia me huele a camelo — that news sounds o smells fishy to me (colloq)

    * * *
    = humbug, con, con trick, hoax, con job.
    Ex. That is what he does now, only now there is a lot of palaver and humbug and pretense of deliberation, which the bill proposes to continue, but which everybody can see would be a false pretense.
    Ex. He has long argued that populist conservatism is nothing more than a con.
    Ex. The social contract has been the con trick by which the bosses have squeezed more and more out of the workers for themselves.
    Ex. This article examines several controversial cataloguing problems, including the classification of anti-Semitic works and books proven to be forgeries or hoaxes.
    Ex. The global warming hoax had all the classic marks of a con job from the very beginning.
    * * *
    masculino (fam) ( timo) con (colloq); ( mentira) lie

    es puro camelo — it's a pack of lies o (colloq) a load of bull

    esa noticia me huele a camelo — that news sounds o smells fishy to me (colloq)

    * * *
    = humbug, con, con trick, hoax, con job.

    Ex: That is what he does now, only now there is a lot of palaver and humbug and pretense of deliberation, which the bill proposes to continue, but which everybody can see would be a false pretense.

    Ex: He has long argued that populist conservatism is nothing more than a con.
    Ex: The social contract has been the con trick by which the bosses have squeezed more and more out of the workers for themselves.
    Ex: This article examines several controversial cataloguing problems, including the classification of anti-Semitic works and books proven to be forgeries or hoaxes.
    Ex: The global warming hoax had all the classic marks of a con job from the very beginning.

    * * *
    ( fam)
    1 (timo) con ( colloq)
    2 (mentira) lie
    eso que te ha contado es puro camelo what he's told you is a pack of lies o ( colloq) a load of bull
    esa noticia me huele a camelo that news sounds o smells fishy to me ( colloq)
    * * *

    Del verbo camelar: ( conjugate camelar)

    camelo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    cameló es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    camelar    
    camelo
    camelo sustantivo masculino (fam) ( timo) con (colloq);
    ( mentira) lie
    camelar vtr fam (convencer, conquistar) to win over: no intentes camelarme porque no pienso comprártelo, you can't talk me into buying it
    a ver si le camelo para que participe en el negocio, let's see if I can convince him to let me come in on the business
    camelo sustantivo masculino familiar
    1 (estafa) hoax
    2 (mentira) cock-and-bull story
    ' camelo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    camelar
    English:
    con
    * * *
    camelo nm
    Fam
    1. [engaño] con;
    esas pastillas para adelgazar son un camelo those slimming pills are a con;
    es puro camelo it's just humbug;
    nos contó un camelo para que le prestáramos dinero he told us a lie so we'd lend him money
    2. [noticia falsa] hoax
    * * *
    m fam
    con fam ; ( broma) joke;
    dar el camelo a alguien fam pull s.o.’s leg fam

    Spanish-English dictionary > camelo

  • 4 embaucador

    adj.
    deceptive, deceiving.
    m.
    faker, charlatan, fraud, bamboozler.
    * * *
    1 deceitful
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 cheat, swindler, trickster
    * * *
    embaucador, -a
    SM / F (=estafador) trickster, swindler; (=impostor) impostor; (=farsante) humbug
    * * *
    I
    - dora adjetivo deceitful
    II
    - dora masculino, femenino trickster
    * * *
    = trickster, swindler, wheeler-dealer, duplicitous, two-faced, con artist, con man, humbug, scamster, fraudster, fraud, hoaxer, hoaxster.
    Ex. A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.
    Ex. The title of the book is 'Net crimes & misdemeanors: outmaneuvering the spammers, swindlers, and stalkers who are targeting you online'.
    Ex. The term widget is taken from the 1963 movie, 'The Wheeler-Dealers'.
    Ex. This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.
    Ex. This course looks at this two-faced society with guided field trips to cemeteries and to the architecture of Edinburgh's underworld below the great banks and public buildings.
    Ex. This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and an idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.
    Ex. His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.
    Ex. Worldly people and even monks without spiritual discernment are nearly always attracted by humbugs, imposters, hypocrites and those who are in demonic delusion.
    Ex. Small business operators can be easy prey for scamsters trying to winkle out money for unsolicited - and unneeded - 'services'.
    Ex. The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud.
    Ex. You know what they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck, or in this case, a lying, stealing, cheating fraud.
    Ex. In a subsequent call the hoaxer suggested that another bomb had been planted on the highway leading to the airport.
    Ex. This recent tsunami is not the first disaster to be exploited by email hoaxsters.
    * * *
    I
    - dora adjetivo deceitful
    II
    - dora masculino, femenino trickster
    * * *
    = trickster, swindler, wheeler-dealer, duplicitous, two-faced, con artist, con man, humbug, scamster, fraudster, fraud, hoaxer, hoaxster.

    Ex: A chapter each is devoted to the comic hero, comedian, humorist, rogue, trickster, clown, fool, underdog, and simpleton.

    Ex: The title of the book is 'Net crimes & misdemeanors: outmaneuvering the spammers, swindlers, and stalkers who are targeting you online'.
    Ex: The term widget is taken from the 1963 movie, 'The Wheeler-Dealers'.
    Ex: This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.
    Ex: This course looks at this two-faced society with guided field trips to cemeteries and to the architecture of Edinburgh's underworld below the great banks and public buildings.
    Ex: This unlikely threesome of a con artist, a hit man, and an idiot find themselves in deep water when their heist doesn't go off as planned.
    Ex: His supporters call him a 'smoothie', while his critics generally portray him as a 'glib con man'.
    Ex: Worldly people and even monks without spiritual discernment are nearly always attracted by humbugs, imposters, hypocrites and those who are in demonic delusion.
    Ex: Small business operators can be easy prey for scamsters trying to winkle out money for unsolicited - and unneeded - 'services'.
    Ex: The article 'Keeping fraudsters in check' describes computerized systems now being developed to help combat fraud.
    Ex: You know what they say, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck, or in this case, a lying, stealing, cheating fraud.
    Ex: In a subsequent call the hoaxer suggested that another bomb had been planted on the highway leading to the airport.
    Ex: This recent tsunami is not the first disaster to be exploited by email hoaxsters.

    * * *
    deceitful
    masculine, feminine
    trickster, con artist ( colloq)
    * * *

    embaucador
    ◊ - dora adjetivo

    deceitful
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    trickster
    embaucador,-ora
    I adjetivo deceitful
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino swindler, cheat

    ' embaucador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    charlatán
    - charlatana
    - embaucadora
    English:
    trickster
    * * *
    embaucador, -ora
    ♦ adj
    deceitful
    ♦ nm,f
    swindler, confodence man o trickster
    * * *
    I adj deceitful
    II m, embaucadora f trickster
    * * *
    : swindler, deceiver

    Spanish-English dictionary > embaucador

  • 5 estafar

    v.
    to swindle.
    estafó cien millones a la empresa he defrauded the company of a hundred million
    El pillo defraudó a la tienda The thief defrauded the store.
    * * *
    1 to swindle, trick, cheat, defraud
    \
    me han estafado familiar I've been done, I've been had
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    VT to swindle, defraud, twist *

    estafar algo a algn — to swindle sb out of sth, defraud sb of sth

    ¡me han estafado! — I've been done! *

    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) (Der) to swindle, defraud

    estafarle algo a alguien — to defraud somebody of something, swindle somebody out of something

    b) (fam) ( timar) to rip... off (colloq), to con (colloq)
    * * *
    = cheat (on), defraud, rip off, swindle, shortchange, bilk, humbug, con, hoax.
    Ex. Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.
    Ex. The librarian wishes to maximise access to information while not defrauding authors and publishers.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex. It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
    Ex. Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
    Ex. With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.
    Ex. More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex. A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex. He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) (Der) to swindle, defraud

    estafarle algo a alguien — to defraud somebody of something, swindle somebody out of something

    b) (fam) ( timar) to rip... off (colloq), to con (colloq)
    * * *
    = cheat (on), defraud, rip off, swindle, shortchange, bilk, humbug, con, hoax.

    Ex: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.

    Ex: The librarian wishes to maximise access to information while not defrauding authors and publishers.
    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
    Ex: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
    Ex: With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.
    Ex: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.

    * * *
    estafar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ( Der) to swindle, defraud estafarle algo A algn to defraud sb OF sth, swindle sb OUT OF sth
    le estafó a la empresa varios millones de pesos he defrauded the company of several million pesos, he swindled the company out of several million pesos
    2 ( fam) (timar) to rip … off ( colloq), to con ( colloq)
    ¡qué manera de estafar a la gente! what a con o rip-off! ( colloq)
    * * *

    estafar ( conjugate estafar) verbo transitivo
    a) (Der) to swindle, defraud;

    estafarle algo a algn to defraud sb of sth, swindle sb out of sth
    b) (fam) ( timar) to rip … off (colloq), to con (colloq)

    estafar verbo transitivo to swindle, cheat, trick: estafaron a un pensionista y le dejaron sin sus ahorros, they swindled the pensioner out of his entire savings
    ' estafar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    defraudar
    - timar
    - engañar
    - robar
    English:
    chisel
    - con
    - defraud
    - diddle
    - fiddle
    - rook
    - swindle
    - trick
    - cheat
    - rip
    * * *
    1. [timar, robar] to swindle;
    [a empresa, organización] to defraud;
    estafó millones a la empresa he defrauded the company of millions
    2. Fam [cobrar abusivamente] to rip off;
    ¿10.000 por esta camisa? a ti te han estafado 10,000 for that shirt? you've been ripped off o had
    * * *
    v/t swindle, cheat;
    estafar algo a alguien cheat s.o. out of sth, defraud s.o. of sth
    * * *
    defraudar: to swindle, to defraud
    * * *
    estafar vb to swindle

    Spanish-English dictionary > estafar

  • 6 timar

    v.
    1 to cheat, to con.
    2 to deceive, to fool, to swindle, to trick.
    Elsa birló al cajero y robó dinero Elsa tricked the cashier and stole money.
    * * *
    1 to swindle, cheat, trick
    1 familiar to make eyes at each other
    * * *
    verb
    to cheat, con, swindle
    * * *
    1.
    VT to swindle, con *

    ¡me han timado! — I've been conned! *

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to swindle, cheat
    * * *
    = cheat (on), trick, dupe, rip off, take in, swindle, shortchange, hoodwink, be had, humbug, con, hoax.
    Ex. Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.
    Ex. People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.
    Ex. He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex. 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".
    Ex. It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
    Ex. Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
    Ex. In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.
    Ex. By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.
    Ex. More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex. A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex. He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to swindle, cheat
    * * *
    = cheat (on), trick, dupe, rip off, take in, swindle, shortchange, hoodwink, be had, humbug, con, hoax.

    Ex: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.

    Ex: People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.
    Ex: He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.
    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex: 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".
    Ex: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
    Ex: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
    Ex: In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.
    Ex: By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.
    Ex: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.

    * * *
    timar [A1 ]
    vt
    to swindle, cheat, rip … off ( colloq)
    ( Esp fam) timarse CON algn (mirar, coquetear) to flirt WITH sb, make eyes AT sb; (tener relaciones) to carry on WITH sb ( colloq)
    * * *

    timar ( conjugate timar) verbo transitivo
    to swindle, cheat
    timar vtr (estafar) to cheat, swindle
    familiar rip off: te han timado, you've been swindled o cheated
    ' timar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    engañar
    - estafar
    English:
    cheat
    - chisel
    - con
    - decoy
    - dupe
    - fleece
    - lead on
    - rip off
    - swindle
    - diddle
    - rip
    * * *
    timar vt
    1. [estafar]
    timar a alguien to swindle sb;
    timar algo a alguien to swindle sb out of sth
    2. [engañar] to cheat, to con;
    ¿cinco mil por eso? ¡te han timado! five thousand for that? you've been done o had!
    * * *
    v/t cheat
    * * *
    timar vt
    : to swindle, to cheat
    * * *
    timar vb to swindle / to cheat
    me han timado 10.000 pesetas I've been swindled out of 10,000 pesetas

    Spanish-English dictionary > timar

  • 7 mentira

    intj.
    that's not true.
    f.
    1 lie.
    es mentira it's not true, it's a lie
    aunque parezca mentira strange as it may seem
    parece mentira que lo hayamos conseguido I can hardly believe we've done it
    parece mentira que te creas una cosa así how can you possibly believe a thing like that?
    ¡parece mentira, las cinco y todavía no ha llegado! can you believe it, it's five o'clock and she's still hasn't arrived!
    de mentira pretend, false
    dinero de mentira pretend money
    una mentira como una casa a whopping great lie
    mentira piadosa white lie
    2 lying, falsehood, unsoundness.
    * * *
    1 lie
    \
    aunque parezca mentira strange though it may seem
    de mentira (en broma) for a laugh, as a joke 2 (artificial) false
    decir mentiras to tell lies
    parece mentira it's unbelievable
    mentira piadosa white lie
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=embuste) lie

    ¡mentira! — it's a lie!

    • de mentira, una pistola de mentira — a toy pistol

    • parecer mentira, aunque parezca mentira — however incredible it seems, strange though it may seem

    ¡parece mentira! — it's unbelievable!, I can't o don't believe it!

    mentira caritativa, mentira oficiosa Cono Sur —

    mentira piadosa, mentira reverenda — Cono Sur white lie

    2) [en uñas] white mark ( on fingernail)
    3) (=errata) erratum
    * * *
    1) lie

    mentira! yo no le pegué — that's a lie, I didn't hit him!

    ya lo he agarrado or pillado en una mentira en varias ocasiones — I've caught him lying to me several times

    una araña de mentira or (Méx) de mentiras — (leng infantil) a toy spider

    una mentira como una casa or catedral or un templo — (fam) a whopping great lie (colloq), a whopper (colloq)

    2) (Esp fam) ( en la uña) white mark
    * * *
    = lie, fabrication, mendacity, fib, fibbing, untruth, false pretence, deceptiveness.
    Ex. Just because the facts don't support his views, he threatens, slanders, lies, obfuscates and charges ' lies, hypocrisy and cruelty'.
    Ex. The author looks at fabrication, falsification and plagiarism in scientific research.
    Ex. In light of his ongoing record of mendacity, it is puzzling why anyone would continue to take him seriously.
    Ex. Democracy's most acute failures tend to result from power brokers who tell big fibs about the distribution of power.
    Ex. When it comes to fibbing, women are far ahead of their male counterparts, a new survey has revealed.
    Ex. Untruth brings about ill reputation and indignity.
    Ex. That is what he does now, only now there is a lot of palaver and humbug and pretense of deliberation, which the bill proposes to continue, but which everybody can see would be a false pretense.
    Ex. In some cases, public figures are famous because of their lies; in other cases, their renown obscures the universality of deceptiveness.
    ----
    * aunque parezca mentira = amazingly enough, believe it or not, incredibly, incredible though it may seem, incredibly enough, incredible as it may seem, strange though it may seem, strange as it may seem, although it may seem strange, although it may seem incredible.
    * de mentira = make-believe.
    * detector de mentiras = polygraph, lie detector.
    * difundir mentiras = spread + lies.
    * gran mentira = big fat lie.
    * la mentira = lying.
    * maraña de mentiras = web of lies, web of deception.
    * mentira descarada = blatant lie, bare-faced lie.
    * mentira gorda = big fat lie.
    * mentira histórica = historical fabrication.
    * mentira inocente = white lie.
    * mentira piadosa = white lie.
    * por muy mentira que parezca = incredibly, incredible though it may seem, strangely enough, incredibly enough, incredible as it may seem, strange though it may seem, strange as it may seem, although it may seem strange, although it may seem incredible.
    * propagar mentiras = spread + lies.
    * trama de mentiras = tissue of lies.
    * una sarta de mentiras = a sackful of lies, a pack of lies.
    * * *
    1) lie

    mentira! yo no le pegué — that's a lie, I didn't hit him!

    ya lo he agarrado or pillado en una mentira en varias ocasiones — I've caught him lying to me several times

    una araña de mentira or (Méx) de mentiras — (leng infantil) a toy spider

    una mentira como una casa or catedral or un templo — (fam) a whopping great lie (colloq), a whopper (colloq)

    2) (Esp fam) ( en la uña) white mark
    * * *
    = lie, fabrication, mendacity, fib, fibbing, untruth, false pretence, deceptiveness.

    Ex: Just because the facts don't support his views, he threatens, slanders, lies, obfuscates and charges ' lies, hypocrisy and cruelty'.

    Ex: The author looks at fabrication, falsification and plagiarism in scientific research.
    Ex: In light of his ongoing record of mendacity, it is puzzling why anyone would continue to take him seriously.
    Ex: Democracy's most acute failures tend to result from power brokers who tell big fibs about the distribution of power.
    Ex: When it comes to fibbing, women are far ahead of their male counterparts, a new survey has revealed.
    Ex: Untruth brings about ill reputation and indignity.
    Ex: That is what he does now, only now there is a lot of palaver and humbug and pretense of deliberation, which the bill proposes to continue, but which everybody can see would be a false pretense.
    Ex: In some cases, public figures are famous because of their lies; in other cases, their renown obscures the universality of deceptiveness.
    * aunque parezca mentira = amazingly enough, believe it or not, incredibly, incredible though it may seem, incredibly enough, incredible as it may seem, strange though it may seem, strange as it may seem, although it may seem strange, although it may seem incredible.
    * de mentira = make-believe.
    * detector de mentiras = polygraph, lie detector.
    * difundir mentiras = spread + lies.
    * gran mentira = big fat lie.
    * la mentira = lying.
    * maraña de mentiras = web of lies, web of deception.
    * mentira descarada = blatant lie, bare-faced lie.
    * mentira gorda = big fat lie.
    * mentira histórica = historical fabrication.
    * mentira inocente = white lie.
    * mentira piadosa = white lie.
    * por muy mentira que parezca = incredibly, incredible though it may seem, strangely enough, incredibly enough, incredible as it may seem, strange though it may seem, strange as it may seem, although it may seem strange, although it may seem incredible.
    * propagar mentiras = spread + lies.
    * trama de mentiras = tissue of lies.
    * una sarta de mentiras = a sackful of lies, a pack of lies.

    * * *
    A lie
    eso es mentira that's a lie
    ¡mentira! yo no le pegué that's a lie, I didn't hit him!
    estoy harto de tus mentiras I'm tired of your lying o lies
    ¿por qué dices tantas mentiras? why do you tell so many lies?, why do you lie so much?
    ya lo he agarrado or cogido en una mentira en varias ocasiones he's lied to me on several occasions, I've caught him lying several times
    parece mentira que a tu edad te dé por hacer esas tonterías I'm amazed at you getting up to such silly antics at your age
    parece mentira que no haya venido a verme I can't believe that he hasn't been to see me
    llevan casados once años — ¡parece mentira! ¡cómo pasa el tiempo! they've been married eleven years — isn't it incredible! o it hardly seems possible! doesn't time fly!
    aunque parezca mentira tiene 50 años you may find it hard to believe but she's 50
    no quiero seguir viviendo en la mentira I don't want to go on living a lie
    una araña de mentira or ( Méx) de mentiras ( leng infantil); a toy spider
    me ha llamado tonta — ¡pero se lo dije de mentira! or ¡pero fue de mentira! he said I was stupid — I was only joking! o I didn't mean it!
    una mentira como una casa or catedral or un templo ( fam); a whopping great lie ( colloq), a whopper ( colloq)
    Compuesto:
    white lie
    B ( fam) (en la uña) white mark
    * * *

     

    Del verbo mentir: ( conjugate mentir)

    mentirá es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) futuro indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    mentir    
    mentira
    mentir ( conjugate mentir) verbo intransitivo
    to lie;

    mentira sustantivo femenino
    lie;
    eso es mentira that's a lie;
    ¡mentira! yo no le pegué that's a lie, I didn't hit him!;
    ¡parece mentira! ¡cómo pasa el tiempo! isn't it incredible! doesn't time fly!;
    mentira piadosa white lie;
    una araña de mentira or (Méx) de mentiras (leng infantil) a toy spider;
    una mentira como una casa or un templo (fam) a whopping great lie (colloq), a whopper (colloq)
    mentir verbo intransitivo to lie, tell lies
    miente como un bellaco, he's a real liar ➣ Ver nota en lie
    mentira sustantivo femenino lie: mentira piadosa, white lie
    ♦ Locuciones: parecer mentira: aunque parezca mentira, strange as it may seem
    parece mentira que tenga esa edad, it is incredible that he is that old

    ' mentira' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bola
    - camelo
    - decir
    - descarada
    - descarado
    - engaño
    - engendrar
    - falsedad
    - invención
    - inventar
    - novela
    - oír
    - pegote
    - piadosa
    - piadoso
    - tamaña
    - tamaño
    - transparente
    - burdo
    - chiva
    - coba
    - cuento
    - fábula
    - flagrante
    - grande
    - macana
    - mito
    - parecer
    - que
    - rollo
    - solemne
    English:
    barefaced
    - blatant
    - blatantly
    - deceit
    - downright
    - fabrication
    - fall for
    - invention
    - lie
    - lying
    - oddly
    - out-and-out
    - outright
    - story
    - transparent
    - white lie
    - whopper
    - make
    - pretend
    - strangely
    - white
    * * *
    1. [falsedad] lie;
    una mentira como una casa o [m5] una catedral a whopping great lie;
    ¡mentira cochina! that's a filthy lie!;
    siempre soy yo el que tiene que lavar los platos – ¡mentira! I'm always the one who has to wash the dishes – that's not true! o that's a lie!;
    es mentira it's a lie, it's not true;
    decir mentiras to tell lies;
    de mentira pretend, false;
    parecer mentira: aunque parezca mentira strange as it may seem;
    parece mentira que lo hayamos conseguido I can hardly believe we've done it;
    parece mentira que te creas una cosa así how can you possibly believe a thing like that?;
    ¡parece mentira, las cinco y todavía no ha llegado! can you believe it, it's five o'clock and she still hasn't arrived!
    mentira piadosa white lie
    2. Fam [en la uña] white mark
    * * *
    f lie;
    ¡parece mentira! that’s incredible!
    * * *
    : lie
    * * *
    mentira n lie
    de mentira pretend / toy

    Spanish-English dictionary > mentira

См. также в других словарях:

  • sell out — Synonyms and related words: apostatize, bear witness against, beguile, betray, blab, blow the whistle, bolt, break away, bunk, clear the trade, close out, convert, convert into cash, cross, cut under, defect, delude, desert, double cross, dump,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • Jesse Knight — Born September 6, 1845(1845 09 06) Died March 14, 1921(1921 03 14) (aged 75) …   Wikipedia

  • Heroes For Hire — Superteambox imagesize= caption= Heroes for Hire vol. 1 #1, by Pasqual Ferry. publisher=Marvel Comics debut= Power Man and Iron Fist #54 (December 1978) creators=Ed Hannigan (writer) Lee Elias (artist) base= members=Misty Knight Black Cat Shang… …   Wikipedia

  • Matt Helders — Matthew Helders Background information Birth name Matthew J. Helders Born 7 May 1986 (1986 05 07) …   Wikipedia

  • P. T. Barnum — Phineas Taylor Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum photo by Mathew Brady, c.1860 Born Phineas Taylor Barnum July 5, 1810(1810 07 05) Be …   Wikipedia

  • List of WKRP in Cincinnati episodes — The following is a complete listing of episodes of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati .eason One (1978 1979) Pilot (Part 1) (9/18/78)The series opens with receptionist Jennifer Marlowe watering plants in the radio station lobby while beautiful… …   Wikipedia

  • Australisches Aboriginal-Englisch — (AAE) bezeichnet verschiedene Varianten der Englischen Sprache, wie sie von Aborigines gesprochen wird. Diese Varianten, die sich in den verschiedenen Teilen Australiens unterschiedlich entwickelten, umfassen eine Bandbreite von nahe an Standard… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Ebenezer Scrooge — is the main character in Charles Dickens 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol . He is a cold hearted, tight fisted, selfish man, who despises Christmas and all things which engender happiness. A quote from the book reads The cold within him froze his… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Christmas films — Christmas or Christmas Day is a holiday[1][2][3] generally observed on December 25 (with alternative days of January 6, 7 and 19[4]) to commemorate the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity.[5] …   Wikipedia

  • Australia — /aw strayl yeuh/, n. 1. a continent SE of Asia, between the Indian and the Pacific oceans. 18,438,824; 2,948,366 sq. mi. (7,636,270 sq. km). 2. Commonwealth of, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of the federated states and… …   Universalium

  • Australian Aboriginal English — (AAE) is a term referring to the various varieties of the English language used by Indigenous Australians. These varieties, which developed differently in different parts of Australia, vary along a continuum, from forms close to standard English… …   Wikipedia

Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное

Прямая ссылка:
… Нажмите правой клавишей мыши и выберите «Копировать ссылку»