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fibnoun a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceivethe claim that everyday living would be impossible without at least a few innocent fibs fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle(or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper distortion, exaggeration, half-truthambiguity, equivocation, obliquitydefamation, libel, slanderperjurybluff, fiction, pose, pretense(or pretence)humbug, jive, nonsensecanard, fallacy, misconception, mythfalsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatementdeceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence truth fact, truism, verityhonesty, truthfulness, veracityauthentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification to make a statement one knows to be untruefibbed and said that he had remembered to water her plants while she was away fabricate, lie, prevaricate forswear(also foreswear), perjureequivocate, fudge, palterbeguile, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fool, gull, hoax, hoodwink, kid, snow, take in, trickdefame, libel, slander, traducefalsify, misreport, misrepresent, misstatedistort, garbledissemble, dissimulatemisguide, misinform, mislead assert, swear, testifyauthenticate, confirm, substantiate, validate, verify to strike repeatedlythe two drunken pub crawlers proceeded to fib each other senseless bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, bludgeon, buffet, bung up, club, curry, do, drub, flog, hammer, hide, lace, lambaste(or lambast), lash, lather, lick, maul, mess (up), paddle, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punch out, rough (up), slate, slog, switch, tan, thrash, thresh, thump, tromp, wallop, whale, whip, whop(or whap), whup, work over assail, assault, attack, beset, box, bust, chop, clobber, clout, crack, cudgel, cuff, descend (on or upon), hit, jump (on), knock, lam, lay on, paste, pounce (on or upon), punch, raid, rush, slam, slap, smack, smash, sock, spank, storm, swat, swipe, thwack, whack, wham, whompblackjack, cane, cowhide, flagellate, fustigate, horsewhip, leather, pistol-whip, rawhide, scourge, strapgore, lacerate, woundmaim, mangle, mutilate beat up on v.lie, prevaricate, equivocate, palter, fib mean to tell an untruth.lie is the blunt term, imputing dishonesty.lied about where he had been prevaricate softens the bluntness of lie by implying quibbling or confusing the issue.during the hearings the witness did his best to prevaricate equivocate implies using words having more than one sense so as to seem to say one thing but intend another.equivocated endlessly in an attempt to mislead her inquisitors palter implies making unreliable statements of fact or intention or insincere promises.a swindler paltering with his investors fib applies to a telling of a trivial untruth.fibbed about the price of the new suit in 1610 |