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Minor deception
Answer for the clue "Minor deception ", 3 letters:
fib
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Word definitions for fib in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a lie," especially a little one, "a white lie," 1610s, of uncertain origin, perhaps from fibble-fable "nonsense" (1580s), a reduplication of fable (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context informal English) A lie#Noun_2, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. vb. (context intransitive English) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. Etymology 2 n. (context medicine informal English) Short form ...
Usage examples of fib.
Lordship was there the day Lord Willoughby confronted me about my fib concerning Little Woodcote.
All in all, it took Elizabeth very little time to decide that her little fib was entirely justified.
Claribel had been brought up to be fair and not to fib unless she really had to.
We both even spoke about it when we were first making up fibs to tell Thomas and the others.
Sir Randolph yawned partway through those fibs of mine, which I considered very telling.
Technicals were strong and ran strong machines, like in the adventure fibs, where technicals were often the protags.
Her mate was an older glover named Kumnax, and as they lay back in the cubicle, soothed by air-dance fibs, he told her stories about past battles, special tactics, how to survive.
Old literature was not nearly as graphic as fibs, but it was different enough to involve her for a time.
Minogue fibbed while buying time so another part of his brain might penetrate the fog: why had Tynan called, if this was thirty years ago?
I think maybe we were fibbing about him looking like Charlton Heston in the Moses film.
Even better, the FIB had been after her for three months, and tagging her took me two days.
De Craye and Willoughby on the subject of his latest truancy, each gentleman trying to run him down in a palpable fib.
FIB busy with Brimstone while the real moneymaker goes out on the other side of the city.
He would sit in the center of his pentacle, stylus on his knee, listening with rapt attention, ticking me off when I introduced a more than usually obvious fib, and frequently interrupting to clarify some ambiguity.
We both even spoke about it when we were first making up fibs to tell Thomas and the others.