fib

She had another; she acknowledged her own fib, but she would plead that she had no right to betray her friend.

"You've learned to fib in the army, and I'm disappointed in you," she added, trying to look reproachful and failing entirely.

That is, answered Epistemon, a gullery too evident, a plain abuse and fib too fabulous.

There are men who fib with so bad a grace and with so little tact that they might as well not fib at all.

And Anna had been hurt, had been made miserable, by the paltriness of this fib.