FIBBING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear

Synonyms:

fibbing; paltering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("fibbing" is a kind of...):

fabrication; lying; prevarication (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)

Derivation:

fib (tell a relatively insignificant lie)

-ing form of the verb fib