Thesaurus / fib
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- equivocate
- invent
- falsify
- palter
- promote
- prevaricate
- make up
- jive
- create fiction
- speak with forked tongue
- stretch the truth
- tell a little white lie
- trump up
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There 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)VARIOUSRemember that this was, in the spirit of it, a fib, seeing that the tone of voice was that of welcome to a possible revelation.
SOMEHOW GOODWILLIAM DE MORGANI mean I know what makes it work, why it tells the truth, when it does tell the truth, and why it fibs when it does fib.
THE COME BACKCAROLYN WELLSIt is not telling a little fib, but acting one; 'making pretend,' for a purpose sanctioned by all and injurious to none.
CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, NO. 696VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO FIB
- artifice
- bilk
- bluff
- 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
- con
- cop a plea
- cop out
- cover up
- dodge
- double-talk
- elude
- escape
- eschew
- evade
- falsify
- fence
- fib
- flip-flop
- fudge
- give run around
- 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
- amphibology
- 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
- run-around
- shuffling
- song
- song and dance
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- stonewall
- tergiversation
- waffle
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.