fib

Don't fib; brace up and make a clean breast of it, and if you need advice I am full of it.

"It was to tease you," said John, who understood at once and who was willing to fib in a good cause.

It is a positive joy to meet a man who had rather appear uncivil than coin a polite fib.

You've been telling me a great big fib, because there are the soldiers coming back again.

Amphibology, am-fib-ol′o-ji, n. the use of ambiguous phrases or such as can be construed in two senses.