All fibbery synonyms

noun fibbery

• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• cover-up — any action, stratagem, or other means of concealing or preventing investigation or exposure.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
• distortion — an act or instance of distorting.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• misstatement — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
• perjury — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• tall tale — far-fetched story
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• canard — A canard is an idea or a piece of information that is false, especially one that is spread deliberately in order to harm someone or their work.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
• erroneousness — The state of being in error; the quality of being erroneous.
• error — A mistake.
• fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
• fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• falseness — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
• feigning — to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
• fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
• figment — a mere product of mental invention; a fantastic notion: The noises in the attic were just a figment of his imagination.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• hogwash — refuse given to hogs; swill.
• line — a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• pretense — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.
• storey — story2 .
• story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
• tale — a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
• untruthful — not truthful; wanting in veracity; diverging from or contrary to the truth; not corresponding with fact or reality.
• whopper — WarGames
• yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.