fib
noun
a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
had been fibbing
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past perfect progressiveof fib.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Of course, maybe a lot of these people had been fibbing for years about going to Woodstock, and eased their conscience by giving the pollsters a more reliable account about church.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012
All her denials of him since had been fibbing to herself, they had been making the best of things, they had been the hybernating sleep from which Love awakes as a giant refreshed!
From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck
And that was uttered in such a way as to declare that Mrs. Western had been fibbing.
From Kept in the Dark by Anthony Trollope
Mary put her hand over his mouth, and Elizabeth took his half-eaten cake, and declared that he should have no more until he confessed that he had been fibbing.
From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Mrs. Herbert Strang
Why, should she have acted a fib about his being an actor, and why, after the end, should she have added an end, in which she returned to own that she had been fibbing?
From Fennel and Rue by William Dean Howells
