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How to Spot a Lying CEO Fibbing in the corner office.

From Inc • Oct. 18, 2010

Fibbing causes the heart to pound, breathing to accelerate and sweating to increase, and the polygraph measures all those things.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lying and Fibbing   The queerest Goop in all the land Was Annie Annabelle LeGrand; She often said what wasn't true— Which is an awful thing to do!

From The Goop Directory of Juvenile Offenders Famous for their Misdeeds and Serving as a Salutary Example for all Virtuous Children by Burgess, Gelett

Spring's the boy for a Moulsey-Hurst rig, my lads,   Shaking a flipper, and milling a pate; Fibbing a nob is most excellent gig, my lads,   Kneading the dough is a turn-out in state.

From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen