Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or practice of fibbing.
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- noun The telling of
fibs ;lying ,falsehood .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is a shame to see him reduced to fibbery to protect his bankrupt Party, Thus corruption spreads like ink in the Goldfish bowl.
Labour`s Pants Aflame Newmania 2007
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It is a shame to see him reduced to fibbery to protect his bankrupt Party, Thus corruption spreads like ink in the Goldfish bowl.
Archive 2007-11-25 Newmania 2007
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It is a shame to see him reduced to fibbery to protect his bankrupt Party, Thus corruption spreads like ink in the Goldfish bowl.
Archive 2007-12-01 Newmania 2007
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This is not a major, or even a sensible, blow against fibbery.
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Did it require prescriptive EU legislation, ie a foreign diktat, to stop this chucklesome fibbery, no of course it did not.
Adolf Hitler Was Right.... (see context ) Newmania 2007
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Did it require prescriptive EU legislation, ie a foreign diktat, to stop this chucklesome fibbery, no of course it did not.
Archive 2007-04-22 Newmania 2007
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I can imagine how very disappointing indeed this fibbery - so familiar to political opponents - would be to a fine upstanding individual like Michael Brown.
Flashback: Jailbird Michael Brown Upset by "Dishonesty"? 2008
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Yes indeed, between flattery and fibbery, our special boy was sure to get ahead and so his day did come.
Archive 2008-08-01 LuLu 2008
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Magic folks, the magical powers of bullshit and fibbery.
Archive 2008-01-01 CC 2008
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I can imagine how very disappointing indeed this fibbery - so familiar to political opponents - would be to a fine upstanding individual like Michael Brown.
Archive 2007-12-30 2008
qms commented on the word fibbery
If fibbers are guilty of fibbery
Then sybarites wallow in sybary.
A scribe who is given
To squibs hasty scriven
Is lost in the thickets of squibbery.
June 10, 2017
bilby commented on the word fibbery
Fibbery squibbery schlock.
A teapot ran around the block.
Carbuncle.
June 10, 2017
qms commented on the word fibbery
I used to have a carbuncle. He was wonderfully helpful with "normally aspirated" car engines but became an anachronism when fuel injection came in. He works on lawn mowers now.
June 10, 2017
bilby commented on the word fibbery
Gelato.
June 10, 2017