All fibbing synonyms
fib
F f adjective fibbing
- perjurious — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
- mendacious — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
- untruthful — not truthful; wanting in veracity; diverging from or contrary to the truth; not corresponding with fact or reality.
noun fibbing
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- runaround — indecisive or evasive treatment, especially in response to a request: Ask for a raise and he'll give you the runaround.
- deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- run around — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
- tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed