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fibbing
[fib] 
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fib
[fib]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell an undetailed lie |
| Synonyms: | concoct, create fiction, equivocate, fabricate, falsify, invent, jive, make up, palter, plant, prevaricate, promote, shovel, speak with forked tongue, stretch the truth, tell a little white lie, trump up |
| Antonyms: | be honest, tell truth |
| Main Entry: | equivocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of an issue |
| Synonyms: | 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 and dance, song*, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, stall, stonewall, tergiversation, waffle |
| Antonyms: | directness, facing, meeting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fabricate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | falsify, make up a story |
| Synonyms: | coin, concoct, contrive, counterfeit, devise, fake, feign, fib, forge, form, fudge, invent, jive, lie, make like, misrepresent, pretend, prevaricate, trump up |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
| Main Entry: | falsify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alter, misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, belie, change, color, con, contort, contradict, contravene, cook, counterfeit, deacon, deceive, deny, distort, doctor, dress up, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, fake, fake it, fib, forge, four-flush, frame up, garble, gloss, lie, misquote, misstate, palter, pervert, phony up, prevaricate, promote, put on an act, salt, tamper with, traverse, trump up, twist, warp |
| Main Entry: | invent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fabricate |
| Synonyms: | concoct, conjure up, create out of thin air, equivocate, fake, falsify, feign, fib, forge, lie, make believe, make up, misrepresent, misstate, pretend, prevaricate, simulate, tell a white lie, tell untruth, think up, trump up, vamp |
| Notes: | The word discover goes back to Latin dis- and cooperire, meaning 'to remove the covering; completely uncover.' By 1553, it was used to mean 'seeing or gaining knowledge of something previously unknown' and 'finding out; bringing to light.' You discover ('uncover') something that is already there, something that has existed but is generally unknown - but you invent something that has never existed before. |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell an untruth |
| Synonyms: | BS, be untruthful, bear false witness, beguile, break promise, bull*, con, concoct, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, dupe*, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fib, forswear, frame, fudge, go back on, invent, make believe, malign, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misrepresent, misspeak, misstate, overdraw, palter, perjure, pervert, phony, plant*, prevaricate, promote, put on*, put up a front, snow*, soft-soap, string along, victimize |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Antonyms: | direct, frank, honest |
| Main Entry: | mendacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, equivocating, erroneous, fallacious, false, fibbing, fraudulent, insincere, lying, paltering, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, shifty, spurious, untrue, untruthful, wrong |
| Antonyms: | frank, honest, sincere, truthful |
| Main Entry: | prevaricate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive; stretch the truth |
| Synonyms: | beat around the bush, beg the question, belie, cavil, con, distort, dodge, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, fabricate, falsify, fib, garble, hedge, invent, jive, lie*, misrepresent, misspeak, palter, phony up, put on*, quibble, shift, shuffle, tergiversate |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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