lying vs veracious

lying

adj
  • Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious 

noun
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground. 

  • An act of telling a lie or falsehood. 

veracious

adj
  • True. 

  • Truthful; speaking the truth. 

How often have the words lying and veracious occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )