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A trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear
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fibbing
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: story , tale , tarradiddle , taradiddle ] [also: fibbing , fibbed ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of fib English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fib \Fib\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fibbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fibbing .] To speak falsely. [Colloq.]
Usage examples of fibbing.
And before you go batting your pretty eyes and fibbing to me, I want you to study harder on why it makes no sense for a young lady to be up and about in her party duds at four A.
Longarm was even more certain someone ad been fibbing about that charred body registered as Tyger when he opened a message from his home office to discover his fellow deputies, Smiley and Dutch, had found two other rooming house registers that claimed, in different handwriting, Calvert Tyger had spent some recent nights in other parts of Denver at the same time, before somehow moving on alive and well as far as any fool records showed, So some damned body, for some damned reason, seemed to be going around checking in and out for the night under the assumed name of a wanted man.
But since they both knew that in this case Mato Takoza had only been fibbing, Longarm found it surprising when she insisted in proving she wasn't anywhere close to that time of the month by shoving two pillows under her brown bottom and having him hold the lamp close as she spread her legs invitingly again.
He told her he liked to know when folks were fibbing to him or not, and added, "Your boss, old P.
He was excused from taking the oath by Graves, who acted on the well-known theory that judges are incapable of fibbing, and he gave his account of all my sins and omissions to Montague Varian, Q.