Lying and So-called

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Lying adjective - Telling or containing lies.

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So-called and lying are semantically related. In some cases you can use "So-called" instead an adjective "Lying".

So-called adjective - Doubtful or suspect.

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Lying and so-called are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lying" instead an adjective phrase "So-called".

The Inquisition ruled, at the time, that so-called witchcraft did not exist and that anyone claiming to possess "magical powers" was lying or insane.

Source: Useful Notes / The Spanish Inquisition
As such, the sanitarium is pitch-black, crammed with urine-stained mattresses, and the so-called Operating Theatre has a corpse just lying unattended on a gurney. Yuck.

Source: Bedlam House
What provokes Morty to join Shao Kahn is how Morty's so-called friends (Jax and Raiden) leave him lying on the ground frozen after his defeat from Sub-Zero.

Source: Web Animation / Morty Kombat

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