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?
Verb (1)
fibbed and said that he had remembered to water her plants while she was away
Verb (2)
the two drunken pub crawlers proceeded to fib each other senseless
Recent Examples on the Web
Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
Down here your lungs breathed fibs right along with Bradford pear, Confederate jasmine, Creole mirepoix, and fresh beignets—and the bad stuff too, the flood mold, hot-trash crawfish shells, tourist-buggy horse s—, and Bourbon Street’s hobo funk of liquor, piss, and puke.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
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
Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
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
Noun
The fib seemed to play into the media focus on Elliot’s weight, as seen in coverage of her passing and the aftermath.
—Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2024
Down here your lungs breathed fibs right along with Bradford pear, Confederate jasmine, Creole mirepoix, and fresh beignets—and the bad stuff too, the flood mold, hot-trash crawfish shells, tourist-buggy horse s—, and Bourbon Street’s hobo funk of liquor, piss, and puke.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
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
Verb
Bob Fireman’s Wagon Wheel Carnival was a cathedral built to the glory of fibbing.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
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
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“Fib.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fib. Accessed 10 May. 2024.
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