Thesaurus / fib
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synonyms for fib
- concoct
- equivocate
- fabricate
- falsify
- invent
- jive
- palter
- plant
- prevaricate
- promote
- shovel
- create fiction
- make up
- speak with forked tongue
- stretch the truth
- tell a little white lie
- trump up
antonyms for fib
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Former Colorado County Clerks Association director Pam Anderson refused to play along with the party’s fibs and says her former colleagues ran a fair 2020 count.
TRUMPISM HAS HIJACKED COLORADO'S SHRINKING GOP. THAT HAS NATIONAL IMPLICATIONS.PHILIP ELLIOTTJUNE 28, 2022TIMEOften, people will tell a fib to keep from hurting another’s feelings.
LYING WON’T STRETCH YOUR NOSE, BUT IT WILL STEAL SOME BRAINPOWERAVERY ELIZABETH HURTAPRIL 21, 2022SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSThe fib led to Pressler losing her job on the Bloomberg investigative unit before it started.
THE TRUE STORY BEHIND NETFLIX'S INVENTING ANNASHANNON CARLINFEBRUARY 11, 2022TIMEThere is the requisite moment when they read their wedding license and realize for the first time both had been telling fibs about their real age.
CINDY MCCAIN OPENS UP — ON HER TERMSPHILIP ELLIOTTAPRIL 27, 2021TIMEDon't fib; brace up and make a clean breast of it, and if you need advice I am full of it.
THE STORY OF THE BIG FRONT DOORMARY FINLEY LEONARD"It was to tease you," said John, who understood at once and who was willing to fib in a good cause.
THE HOSTS OF THE AIRJOSEPH A. ALTSHELERIt is a positive joy to meet a man who had rather appear uncivil than coin a polite fib.
THE TERMS OF SURRENDERLOUIS TRACYYou've been telling me a great big fib, because there are the soldiers coming back again.
IN CAMP WITH A TIN SOLDIERJOHN KENDRICK BANGSAmphibology, am-fib-ol′o-ji, n. the use of ambiguous phrases or such as can be construed in two senses.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 1 OF 4: A-D)VARIOUSAmphibalus, am-fib′a-lus, n. an ecclesiastical vestment like the chasuble.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 1 OF 4: A-D)VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO FIB
- bilk
- bluff
- boondoggle
- catch
- cheat
- chicane
- con
- con game
- confidence game
- cover-up
- crock
- decoy
- device
- dodge
- fallacy
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- feint
- fib
- fraud
- gimmick
- hoax
- hogwash
- hustle
- illusion
- imposture
- jive
- lie
- malarkey
- mare's-nest
- pretext
- ride
- ruse
- scam
- sham
- shift
- shuck
- snare
- snow job
- stall
- sting
- story
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- trap
- trick
- whitewash
- wile
- wrinkle
- beat around the bush
- beg the question
- blow hot and cold
- cavil
- cloud the issue
- cop a plea
- cop out
- cover up
- dodge
- double-talk
- elude
- escape
- eschew
- evade
- falsify
- fence
- fib
- flip-flop
- fudge
- give the runaround
- hedge
- hem and haw
- jive
- lie
- mince words
- palter
- parry
- pass the buck
- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- quibble
- run around
- shuck
- shuffle
- sidestep
- sit on the fence
- stonewall
- tell white lie
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- waffle
- weasel
- ambiguity
- amphiboly
- casuistry
- coloring
- con
- cop out
- cover
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- dissimulation
- distortion
- double entendre
- double meaning
- double talk
- doubtfulness
- duplicity
- equivocality
- evasion
- fallacy
- fib
- fibbing
- hedging
- lie
- line
- lying
- misrepresentation
- prevarication
- quibbling routine
- runaround
- shuffling
- song
- song and dance
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- stonewall
- tergiversation
- waffle
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