tell a fib
81deceive — Synonyms and related words: abuse, bamboozle, be untruthful, befool, beguile, betray, bitch, bluff, bunk, cajole, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, conjure, cozen, debauch, defile, deflower, defraud, delude, despoil, diddle, do, dodge, double… …
82equivocate — Synonyms and related words: about the bush, alternate, around the bush, avoid, back and fill, be untruthful, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, choplogic, deceive, dither, dodge, double talk, draw the… …
83exaggerate — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, ballyhoo, be untruthful, beef up, belie, blow up, build up, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, carry too far, color, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, deceive,… …
84falsify — Synonyms and related words: alter, be untruthful, belie, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, change, cheat, color, contort, contradict, contravene, cook, deceive, deny, disguise, distort, doctor, draw the longbow, dress up, embellish, embroider,… …
85lie — Synonyms and related words: aim, aspect, attitude, azimuth, be found, be located, be met with, be present, be situated, be there, be untruthful, bearing, bearings, beguile, bent, blague, bouncer, canard, carry, celestial navigation, cheat, cock… …
86mislead — Synonyms and related words: abuse, bamboozle, be untruthful, beguile, betray, bluff, bowl a googly, bunk, con, corrupt, cozen, debauch, deceive, defile, deflower, delude, despoil, double cross, draw the longbow, dupe, entice, equivocate,… …
87prevaricate — Synonyms and related words: around the bush, back and fill, be untruthful, beat about, beg the question, belie, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, deceive, dodge, draw the longbow, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, exaggerate, falsify,… …
88stretch the truth — Synonyms and related words: aggrandize, amplify, ballyhoo, be untruthful, build up, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, deceive, draw the longbow, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, fib, go to extremes, hyperbolize, lay it on, lie, lie flatly,… …
89tale — Synonyms and related words: account, aggregate, all, amount, anecdotage, anecdote, back fence gossip, backbiting, backstabbing, be all and end all, belittlement, blague, box score, calumny, canard, cast, chitchat, chronicle, cock and bull story,… …
90invent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. devise, conceive, contrive, originate; imagine, fabricate, improvise; create, spin, forge, design; feign. See imagination, falsehood. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To create] Syn. originate, devise,… …
