Synonyms of fibs

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noun

plural of fib

as in lies

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

the claim that everyday living would be impossible without at least a few innocent fibs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lies
• tales
• stories
• falsehoods
• untruths
• prevarications
• fabrications
• whoppers
• fables
• fairy tales
• falsities
• mendacities
• distortions
• exaggerations
• half-truths
• ambiguities
• fictions
• tarradiddles
• taradiddles
• slanders
• equivocations
• libels
• defamations
• deceits
• obliquities
• perjuries
• bluffs
• pretences
• nonsense
• myths
• dishonesties
• misstatements
• fallacies
• misrepresentations
• misconceptions
• duplicities
• falsifications
• misinformation
• pretenses
• fraudulences
• canards
• poses
• humbug
• misreports
• jives

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truths
• facts
• verities
• truisms
• confirmations
• verifications
• validations
• substantiations
• honesties
• veracities
• authentications

fibs

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verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of fib

as in prevaricates

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

• lies
• prevaricates
• deceives
• tricks
• kids
• fabricates
• perjures
• fools
• slanders
• libels
• deludes
• equivocates
• dupes
• hoodwinks
• fudges
• forswears
• misstates
• gulls
• snows
• misrepresents
• falsifies
• foreswears
• hoaxes
• misleads
• defames
• distorts
• misreports
• beguiles
• misinforms
• dissembles
• garbles
• palters
• dissimulates
• cozens
• takes in
• traduces
• misguides

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• asserts
• testifies
• swears
• confirms
• validates
• verifies
• substantiates
• authenticates

fibs

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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of fib, British

as in licks

to strike repeatedly

the two drunken pub crawlers proceeded to fib each other senseless

Synonyms & Similar Words

• licks
• hides
• pounds
• lashes
• slaps
• attacks
• beats
• whips
• assaults
• punches
• hits
• knocks
• pelts
• thumps
• spanks
• slams
• does
• batters
• chops
• smashes
• mauls
• bashes
• bats
• whaps
• belabors
• wounds
• buffets
• paddles
• boxes
• tans
• slates
• clubs
• raids
• smacks
• punches out
• lambasts
• wallops
• works over
• curries
• laces
• bastes
• hammers
• whales
• storms
• switches
• drubs
• belts
• flogs
• pummels
• lambastes
• whacks
• thrashes
• swipes
• threshes
• roughs (up)
• bludgeons
• lathers
• whops
• swats
• whups
• slogs
• tromps
• messes (up)
• bungs up
• socks
• beats up on
• pastes
• cracks
• birches
• clouts
• rushes
• pommels
• descends (on or upon)
• whams
• lams
• cuffs
• thwacks
• jumps (on)
• straps
• busts
• lacerates
• besets
• assails
• flagellates
• clobbers
• lays on
• cudgels
• gores
• canes
• pistol-whips
• scourges
• leathers
• mangles
• pounces (on or upon)
• whomps
• maims
• fustigates
• rawhides
• blackjacks
• cowhides
• mutilates
• horsewhips