Thesaurus / fibbing
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synonyms for fibbing
- misleading
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- falsifying
- inventing
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- prevaricating
- two-timing
- wrong
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- false
- guileful
- mendacious
- perfidious
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- unreliable
- untruthful
- deceitful
- deceptive
- duplicitous
- equivocating
- erroneous
- fallacious
- false
- fraudulent
- insincere
- lying
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- shifty
- spurious
- untrue
- untruthful
- wrong
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- forsworn
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
- prevarication
- ambiguity
- amphiboly
- casuistry
- coloring
- con
- cover
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- dissimulation
- distortion
- doubtfulness
- duplicity
- evasion
- fallacy
- fib
- hedging
- lie
- line
- lying
- misrepresentation
- shuffling
- song
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- tergiversation
- waffle
- cop out
- double entendre
- double meaning
- double talk
- equivocality
- quibbling routine
- runaround
- song and dance
- stonewall
- ambiguity
- amphiboly
- casuistry
- coloring
- con
- cover
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- dissimulation
- distortion
- doubtfulness
- duplicity
- euphemism
- evasion
- fallacy
- fib
- hedge
- hedging
- lie
- line
- lying
- misrepresentation
- prevarication
- shuffle
- shuffling
- song
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- waffle
- cop out
- double entendre
- double meaning
- double talk
- equivocality
- equivoque
- quibbling routine
- runaround
- song and dance
- stonewall
- weasel word
- certainty
- clarity
- fact
- frankness
- honesty
- openness
- reality
- surety
- trustworthiness
- truth
- truthfulness
- uprightness
- directness
- facing
- meeting
- certainty
- clarity
- fact
- frankness
- honesty
- openness
- reality
- surety
- trustworthiness
- truth
- truthfulness
- uprightness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use fibbing in a sentence
It’s not necessarily the stuff you see most advertised — like the fib about faster 5G phones — that made the best impression.
IT’S OKAY IF YOU WEREN’T PAYING ATTENTION TO GADGETS IN 2020. HERE ARE THE BEST ONES YOU MISSED.GEOFFREY FOWLERNOVEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POSTA great part of my life was made up of making life pleasant to others by fibbing.
APRIL HOPESWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSThis was outrageous fibbing, but nobly done in a good cause.
THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS ON THE OPEN ROADHILDEGARD G. FREYThe Baroness turned her smile toward him, and she instantly felt that she had been observed to be fibbing.
THE EUROPEANSHENRY JAMESThis romantic young philanthropist talks of fibbing, as if it were the most simple thing in life.
A ROMANTIC YOUNG LADYROBERT GRANTShould it appear that Claire really wrote the letter, it will only be additional evidence of her faculty for fibbing.
THE REAL SHELLEY, VOL. II (OF 2)JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESONShe wouldn't have minded his fibbing outright, so much, for then it wouldn't have seemed to come from his nature.
THE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY, COMPLETEWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSSpeak the truth and be taken in, not I; there's no harm in fibbing when it's for doing good, Miss.
THE SILVER LININGJOHN ROUSSELAnd so it was, possibly the consciousness of fibbing and the difficulty of doing it successfully was responsible for the flush.
LEFT GUARD GILBERTRALPH HENRY BARBOURI do not know what to think, except that the old gentleman is not fibbing intentionally.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN, VOLUME II (OF II)CHARLES DARWINWORDS RELATED TO FIBBING
- 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
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- fibbing
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- fibbing
- forsworn
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
- 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
- equivoque
- euphemism
- evasion
- fallacy
- fib
- fibbing
- hedge
- hedging
- lie
- line
- lying
- misrepresentation
- prevarication
- quibbling routine
- runaround
- shuffle
- shuffling
- song
- song and dance
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- stonewall
- waffle
- weasel word
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.