stretch the truth

embellish

aggrandize amplify color distend dramatize elaborate enhance enlarge expand falsify fudge heighten hyperbolize lie magnify overdo overemphasize overestimate overstate pad puff romanticize stretch

blow-up build up make federal case make mountain out of molehill overelaborate overembellish play up spread on thick yeast

abridge compress condense contract curtail decrease diminish lessen lower reduce shorten shrink simplify

concoct equivocate fabricate falsify invent jive palter plant prevaricate promote shovel

create fiction make up speak with forked tongue tell a little white lie trump up

tell the truth

be honest