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.

  •
  • falsehood,
  • invention,
  • a tissue of lies.
  •communication (noun)
  • white lie.
  •fable (noun)
  • old saws,
  • one for birds,
  • one for bird,
  • old chestnuts,
  • un-truths,
  • un truths,
  • un-truth,
  • tall stories,
  • one for the bird,
  • un truth.
  •fib (noun)
  • un truthfulness,
  • mis representations,
  • spinaches,
  • mis-representations,
  • un-truthfulness,
  • un truthfulnesses,
  • un-truthfulnesses,
  • mis-representation,
  • mis representation.
  •inveracity (noun)
  • in veracity,
  • in-veracity,
  • in veracities,
  • in-veracities.
  •lie (noun)
  • dis honesty,
  • dis informations,
  • dis honesties,
  • in accuracy,
  • de traction,
  • mis statement,
  • dis information,
  • dis-informations,
  • dis-honesties,
  • hyper-boles,
  • hyper-bole,
  • hyper boles,
  • de-traction,
  • dis-information,
  • fraudulences,
  • de tractions,
  • mis statements,
  • in-accuracies,
  • disinformations,
  • in-accuracy,
  • mis-statements,
  • hyper bole,
  • dis-honesty,
  • in accuracies,
  • de-tractions.
  •little lie (noun)
  • harmless untruth,
  • mental dishonesty,
  • little white lie,
  • exaggeration,
  • trivial untruth,
  • slight stretch,
  • suggestio falsi,
  • well-intentioned untruth,
  • near truth,
  • partial truth.
  •pretext (noun)
  • affirmation,
  • smoke screen,
  • pretext,
  • claim,
  • excuse,
  • rationale,
  • red herring,
  • stratagem,
  • pretense,
  • plea,
  • loop-hole,
  • reason,
  • alibi,
  • justification.
  •story (noun)
  • un truism,
  • un-truism,
  • un-truisms,
  • un truisms,
  • cock and bull story,
  • untruisms.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fabrication,
  • hokum,
  • half-truth,
  • baloney,
  • whopper,
  • snow job,
  • untruth,
  • malarkey,
  • mendacity,
  • misinformation.
  •
  • bluff,
  • bs,
  • cover story,
  • flannel,
  • fairy tale,
  • jive,
  • bull.
  •
  • concoction.
  •
  • put on.
  •
  • cover.
  •
  • line.
  •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.