Synonyms
Noun
- fable
- fabrication
- fairy tale
- falsehood
- falsity
- lie
- mendacity
- prevarication
- story
- tale
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- untruth
- whopper
Verb (1)
Verb (2)
- bash
- baste
- bat
- batter
- beat
- belabor
- belt
- birch
- bludgeon
- buffet
- bung up
- club
- curry
- do
- drub
- flog
- hammer
- hide
- lace
- lambaste
- lambast
- lash
- lather
- lick
- maul
- mess (up)
- paddle
- pelt
- pommel
- pound
- pummel
- punch out
- rough (up)
- slate
- slog
- switch
- tan
- thrash
- thresh
- thump
- tromp
- wallop
- whale
- whip
- whop
- whap
- whup
- work over
Examples of fib in a Sentence
Noun
I have to admit that I told a fib when I said I enjoyed the movie.
Is she telling fibs again?
Recent Examples on the Web
Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
While Doherty’s fib was relatively benign, the video demonstrated how some satirical videos that go viral online have the ability to quickly spread rumors.
—Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
Lying is so common, there are entire movies, television series, and songs dedicated to the art of the fib.
—Leah Campano, Seventeen, 29 June 2023
Here's another fib, another lie.
—Nbc Universal, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2023
Topline Fox News on Monday apologized for airing a graphic that baselessly suggested President Joe Biden wanted to force Americans to eat less meat as part of his climate plan—but not before the fib was picked up and exploited by several prominent Republicans.
—Jack Brewster, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
Even those who do turn out to have a-fib that was otherwise asymptomatic may end up being worse off if they’re put on blood thinners, which reduce stroke risk but raise the possibility of serious bleeding—a major concern for anyone who engages in outdoor pursuits.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Dec. 2020
Cinader claimed that the original J. Crew was a men’s haberdasher in Princeton, and at first this fib was the only original thing about J. Crew.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Neidle concluded that Zahawi had told a fib to the media and, by extension, to the U.K. public paying his salary.
—Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
Emma Roth, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
One survey concluded that one in four Americans who claimed to floss regularly was fibbing.
—Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
Most of us have fibbed once or twice about being proficient in Excel or Powerpoint to get a job, only to later learn the skill on the clock and get a couple grey hairs while at it.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2023
With this latest indictment, which is a federal criminal probe that goes beyond fibbing on tax forms and mishandling spycraft files and includes a bodycount, Trump has few chances to rise to his predecessor’s heights, at least beyond a shady corner of his partisan bonfire.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Aug. 2023
Like Bolton, Middleton points to Lagerfeld’s propensity to fib, exaggerate and reinvent himself.
—Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
Like Bolton, Middleton points to Lagerfeld's propensity to fib, exaggerate and reinvent himself.
—Rachel Tashjian, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
In a 2016 paper in Nature Neuroscience (the gold standard journal in the field) Tali Sharot and colleagues at University College London used functional magnetic resonance imaging to observe changes in blood flow to the brain’s emotional centers as people fibbed.
—Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2023
The most common example of the crime involves fibbing about a company's financial information for the sake of evading or minimizing tax payments, or in an effort to hoodwink potential investors, Galluzo said.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023
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Noun
When fibs are told to prove a social point rather than to elicit an easy laugh, does their moral weight change?
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
While Doherty’s fib was relatively benign, the video demonstrated how some satirical videos that go viral online have the ability to quickly spread rumors.
—Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
Lying is so common, there are entire movies, television series, and songs dedicated to the art of the fib.
—Leah Campano, Seventeen, 29 June 2023
Here's another fib, another lie.
—Nbc Universal, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2023
Topline Fox News on Monday apologized for airing a graphic that baselessly suggested President Joe Biden wanted to force Americans to eat less meat as part of his climate plan—but not before the fib was picked up and exploited by several prominent Republicans.
—Jack Brewster, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
Even those who do turn out to have a-fib that was otherwise asymptomatic may end up being worse off if they’re put on blood thinners, which reduce stroke risk but raise the possibility of serious bleeding—a major concern for anyone who engages in outdoor pursuits.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Dec. 2020
Cinader claimed that the original J. Crew was a men’s haberdasher in Princeton, and at first this fib was the only original thing about J. Crew.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Neidle concluded that Zahawi had told a fib to the media and, by extension, to the U.K. public paying his salary.
—Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
Verb
While SharkNinja’s claims may seem outrageous, the company might not actually be fibbing.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
One survey concluded that one in four Americans who claimed to floss regularly was fibbing.
—Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
Most of us have fibbed once or twice about being proficient in Excel or Powerpoint to get a job, only to later learn the skill on the clock and get a couple grey hairs while at it.
—Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2023
With this latest indictment, which is a federal criminal probe that goes beyond fibbing on tax forms and mishandling spycraft files and includes a bodycount, Trump has few chances to rise to his predecessor’s heights, at least beyond a shady corner of his partisan bonfire.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Aug. 2023
Like Bolton, Middleton points to Lagerfeld’s propensity to fib, exaggerate and reinvent himself.
—Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
Like Bolton, Middleton points to Lagerfeld's propensity to fib, exaggerate and reinvent himself.
—Rachel Tashjian, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
In a 2016 paper in Nature Neuroscience (the gold standard journal in the field) Tali Sharot and colleagues at University College London used functional magnetic resonance imaging to observe changes in blood flow to the brain’s emotional centers as people fibbed.
—Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2023
The most common example of the crime involves fibbing about a company's financial information for the sake of evading or minimizing tax payments, or in an effort to hoodwink potential investors, Galluzo said.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023
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“Fib.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fib. Accessed 28 Nov. 2023.
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fib
nounˈfib
: an unimportant lie
fib
verb
fibber
noun
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fib
abbreviation
fibrillation
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