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What is another word for fibbing?

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Verb

Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue

Present participle for to strike or hit repeatedly

Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive

Present participle for to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, especially with intent to deceive

Noun

The act of speaking falsehoods or dissimulating misinformation

The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification

Adjective

Characterized by a lack of sincerity

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Verb

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Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue

departing from the truth

not telling the truth

trumping up

making up

telling a terminological inexactitude

creating fiction

telling a fib

speaking with forked tongue

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

telling a little white lie

pulling someone's leg

creating out of thin air

saying something untrue

putting on the wrong track

breaking promise

committing perjury

bearing false witness

throwing off the scent

putting up a front

putting on

sending on a wild goose chase

leading astray

lacking candor

giving the wrong impression

leading up the garden path

giving someone a bum steer

victimising^UK

putting up smoke screen

ripping off

putting on an act

giving wrong information to

catching

ensnaring

pulling a swifty on

leading down the garden path

double-crossing

pulling a fast one on

putting on false front

victimizing^US

leading up garden path

imposing on

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“Now and then, he would fib about these towns, villages and cities which he had never set foot in.”

Verb

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Present participle for to strike or hit repeatedly

pummelling^UK

belabouring^UK

belaboring^US

cudgelling^UK

cudgeling^US

beating the living daylights out of

giving someone a hiding

knocking around

laying one on

knocking about

giving someone a good hiding

knocking into the middle of next week

letting someone have it

brutalizing^US

brutalising^UK

striking with a stick

putting in the hospital

warming someone's seat

dusting someone's britches

whamming

giving someone a beating

giving someone a drubbing

giving someone a good beating

giving someone a good drubbing

pulverizing^US

pulverising^UK

taking to the cleaners

wiping the floor with

blowing out of the water

bringing someone to their knees

pouncing upon

getting the better of

giving someone the works

winning a victory over

inflicting suffering on

launching an attack on

running roughshod over

winning a resounding victory over

jumping down one's throat

beating someone's brains out

knocking someone's lights out

assaulting physically

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“Sarah was so enraged that she started to fib the punching bag with all her strength, releasing her frustration with each powerful strike.”

Verb

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Present participle for to alter something from its true state, typically to deceive

Verb

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Present participle for to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, especially with intent to deceive

weaseling^US

weaselling^UK

temporising^UK

temporizing^US

parrying

stonewalling

shuffling

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

beating about the bush

beating around the bush

Noun

The act of speaking falsehoods or dissimulating misinformation

pretence^UK

pretense^US

dishonor^US

dishonour^UK

giving false testimony

bearing false witness

false swearing

false statement

false oath

bearing false testimony

oath breaking

forswearing oneself

false testimony

giving false evidence

violation of an oath

making false statements

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Noun

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The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification

colouring^UK

coloring^US

beating about the bush

overgeneral reasoning

unsound reasoning

twisting the facts

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Adjective

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Characterized by a lack of sincerity

economical with the truth

phony^US

phoney^UK

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

terminologically inexact

not entirely truthful

bearing false witness

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