Definition for White lie:

• A lie for which some kind of excuse can be offered: a false statement made in the interest of peace, reconciliation, harmless sport, or the like: a harmless or non- malicious falsehood. " I wish that word 'fib' was out of the English language; and white- lie drummed out after it."- Miss Edgeworth.

Synonyms for White lie:

• n.

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  • falsehood,
  • invention.
  •little lie (noun)
  • near truth,
  • harmless untruth,
  • mental dishonesty,
  • trivial untruth,
  • slight stretch,
  • partial truth,
  • suggestio falsi,
  • little white lie,
  • exaggeration.
  •pretext (noun)
  • affirmation,
  • smoke screen,
  • pretext,
  • claim,
  • excuse,
  • rationale,
  • red herring,
  • stratagem,
  • pretense,
  • plea,
  • loop-hole,
  • reason,
  • alibi,
  • justification.

• Other synonyms:

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  • half-truth,
  • fabrication,
  • whopper,
  • untruth,
  • mendacity.
  •
  • fairy tale.
  •Other relevant words:
  • flimflam,
  • falsity,
  • Blague,
  • ghost story,
  • tall tale,
  • fiction,
  • taradiddle,
  • tale,
  • fish story,
  • farfetched story,
  • Flam,
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • farrago,
  • misrepresentation,
  • legal fiction,
  • yarn.

Hyponym for White lie:

• n.

  • communication
    lie, prevarication.