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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fib .
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Examples
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I kind of fibbed a bit and told my boss I had to see a doctor for my allergies, because I was too embarassed to tell him that I had a highlighting injury.
Archive 2007-09-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007
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ZAHN: Well, we kind of fibbed a little, didn't we?
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He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he "fibbed" on his bar application.
Latest Articles 2010
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He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he 'fibbed' on his bar application.
Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010
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He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he "fibbed" on his bar application.
Latest Articles 2010
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Boyle "fibbed" to his US producers that he wanted to translate about 10 percent of the dialogue into Hindi, then translated almost a third of it.
Tonight 2009
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One of his other reference points was 'Satya', a 1998 film about the Mumbai underworld, written by Saurabh Shukla (who plays Sergeant Srinivas in Slumdog) - Boyle "fibbed" to his US producers that he wanted to translate about 10 per cent of the dialogue for 'Slumdog' into Hindi, then translated almost a third of the script.
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"fibbed" to her mother; and on that memorable and ethically instructive occasion her mother had regarded her in this same calm fashion.
The Last Shot Frederick Palmer 1915
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He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he 'fibbed' on his bar application. "
Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010
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He surrendered his license back in 2008 possibly to escape charges that he ‘fibbed’ on his bar application.
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