fib
Example Sentences
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After an overconfident miller fibs that his daughter can spin straw into gold, a greedy king locks the poor girl in a room full of straw.
He didn’t know diddly about ships or sailing, so he had to tell a big fib to get a job as a cabin boy.
From Literature
Stunned by her blatant fibbing, I backed off.
From MarketWatch
By the way, they also confess to occasionally fibbing about “overqualificiations” to spare job applicants’ egos.
And a few moments later a voice next to us describes another case: "Six-year-old girl, she was hit by an electric bike, she has a closed tib/fib fracture."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
