Synonyms of fibbing

fibbing 1 of 3

adjective

as in lying

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lying
• dishonest
• mendacious
• untruthful
• prevaricating
• untrue
• fallacious
• pretending
• unscrupulous
• unreliable
• unbelievable
• untrustworthy
• false
• duplicitous
• hypocritical
• dissembling
• undependable
• insincere
• bluffing
• deceptive
• evasive
• dissimulating
• deceitful
• sneaky
• equivocating
• wily
• treacherous
• posing
• sly
• tricky
• underhanded
• devious
• artful
• slippery
• slick

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truthful
• honest
• veracious
• plain
• direct
• frank
• forthcoming
• forthright
• candid
• open
• outspoken
• true
• believable
• credible
• veritable
• out-front
• plainspoken
• free-spoken
• openhearted
• foursquare
• freehearted

fibbing

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verb (1)

present participle of fib

as in prevaricating

to make a statement one knows to be untrue

fibbed and said that he had remembered to water her plants while she was away

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lying
• prevaricating
• deceiving
• kidding
• fabricating
• fooling
• perjuring
• deluding
• tricking
• equivocating
• duping
• fudging
• misstating
• libelling
• misreporting
• forswearing
• misrepresenting
• hoodwinking
• slandering
• misleading
• falsifying
• libeling
• paltering
• foreswearing
• distorting
• dissembling
• snowing
• hoaxing
• misinforming
• gulling
• defaming
• dissimulating
• taking in
• cozening
• beguiling
• traducing
• garbling
• misguiding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• asserting
• testifying
• confirming
• verifying
• swearing
• validating
• substantiating
• authenticating

fibbing

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verb (2)

present participle of fib, British

as in hiding

to strike repeatedly

the two drunken pub crawlers proceeded to fib each other senseless

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hiding
• licking
• doing
• pounding
• lashing
• whipping
• slapping
• punching
• beating
• knocking
• hitting
• attacking
• battering
• pelting
• batting
• spanking
• assaulting
• slamming
• chopping
• thumping
• bashing
• mauling
• smashing
• tanning
• paddling
• smacking
• pummelling
• hammering
• pummeling
• whacking
• flogging
• raiding
• whopping
• switching
• bludgeoning
• slogging
• belaboring
• lathering
• punching out
• working over
• slating
• currying
• boxing
• thrashing
• whapping
• walloping
• lambasting
• clubbing
• belting
• basting
• drubbing
• swiping
• buffeting
• roughing (up)
• storming
• pommelling
• messing (up)
• cracking
• whupping
• lacing
• tromping
• whaling
• threshing
• wounding
• swatting
• pommeling
• rushing
• clouting
• birching
• socking
• cudgelling
• pasting
• thwacking
• bunging up
• beating up on
• descending (on or upon)
• strapping
• busting
• cudgeling
• clobbering
• besetting
• cuffing
• assailing
• jumping (on)
• lamming
• laying on
• flagellating
• pouncing (on or upon)
• whamming
• caning
• mangling
• whomping
• leathering
• blackjacking
• scourging
• mutilating
• goring
• lacerating
• fustigating
• pistol-whipping
• maiming
• rawhiding
• cowhiding
• horsewhipping