splendide mendax
Latin quotation from Horace
splen·di·de men·dax ˌsplen-di-ˌdā-ˈmen-ˌdäks 
: nobly false : untruthful for a good cause
- devil's milk
- devil's paintbrush
- devil's paternoster
- devil's picture book
- devil's shoestring
- devil's shoestrings
- devil's slide
- devil's tattoo
- devil's toenail
- devil's trumpet
- devil's-apple
- devil's-apron
- devil's-aprons
- devil's-bite
- devil's-bites
- devil's-bones
- devil's-cotton
- devil's-cottons
- devil's-fig
- devil's-figs
- devil's-finger
- devil's-fingers
- devil's-flax
- devil's-flaxes
- devil's-grandmother