white lienoun [ C ]
uk/ˌwaɪt ˈlaɪ/us/ˌwaɪt ˈlaɪ/a lie that is told in order to be polite or to stop someone from being upset by the truth
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- perjury
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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