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Fibbing

noun
1.
A trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear.  Synonym: paltering.


Fib

verb
(past & past part. fibbed; pres. part. fibbing)
1.
Tell a relatively insignificant lie.



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"Fibbing" Quotes from Famous Books



... laugh, sir, but what do you think of her wheedling me into sending Zeke up, and then getting him off on the sly with that telegram? I faced him down with it to-night, and Zeke isn't any good at fibbing." ...
— Jewel - A Chapter In Her Life • Clara Louise Burnham
... deserves record. It was the spirit of a German woman, named Gretehen, who died three years ago, but refused to say at what age. She was wrong sometimes, but then it may have been her feminine instinct for fibbing. "The spirits play tricks," say the spiritualists. "Sometimes they are wicked spirits, who tell lies." The Planchette also wrote out the names of unseen cards placed upon it face downwards. The artistic spirit of the Author ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill


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