From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlive a lielive a liePRETENDto pretend all the time that you feel or believe something when actually you do not feel that way I knew that I could not continue to live a lie. → live
Examples from the Corpus
live a lie• Betts said he announced his homosexuality because he couldn't go on living a lie.• I had to leave him - I couldn't go on living a lie.• All their married life she had been living a lie.• By refraining from questioning I've allowed Liza to go on living a lie.• If I accepted this relationship you seem to want, you'd come to hate me for making you live a lie.• A few miles from the house where Irina and I live lies an old churchyard.• Now Diana will feel she need no longer go on living a lie trapped in a sham relationship.• But she was living a lie wasn't she?• If you live a lie, what is the next step? 