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Synonyms
Noun
- fable
- fabrication
- fairy tale
- falsehood
- falsity
- lie
- mendacity
- prevarication
- story
- tale
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- untruth
- whopper
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Verb (2)
- bash
- baste
- bat
- batter
- beat
- belabor
- belt
- birch
- bludgeon
- buffet
- bung up
- club
- curry
- do
- drub
- flog
- hammer
- hide
- lace
- lambaste
- 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
- whap
- whup
- work over
lie, prevaricate, equivocate, palter, fib mean to tell an untruth.
lie is the blunt term, imputing dishonesty.
prevaricate softens the bluntness of lie by implying quibbling or confusing the issue.
equivocate implies using words having more than one sense so as to seem to say one thing but intend another.
palter implies making unreliable statements of fact or intention or insincere promises.
fib applies to a telling of a trivial untruth.
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“Fib.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fib. Accessed 13 Jun. 2024.
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