How To Use White lie In A Sentence
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I do admit that I fibbed a little and told her that I was a fireman instead of an ice cream man, but both professions involve driving a truck into neighborhoods and saving lives, so as far as I'm concerned it was a white lie.
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Lying, a very natural and generally prevalent phenomenon, may manifest itself in all gradations -- from the occasional, quite innocent "white lie" as it occurs in a perfectly normal individual to the pathological lying exhibited in that mental state known as "pseudologia phantastica.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
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Research revealed that untruths range from little white lies to huge whoppers aimed purely at personal gain.
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As little white lies go, we have been sold it well.
Times, Sunday Times
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As little white lies go, we have been sold it well.
Times, Sunday Times
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Notice that you are able to turn her down with a little white lie, while neither offending her nor coming off as an abrupt and anti-social clod.
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So you mum won't have to yell, a white lie.
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Some orange badges, quite obviously, are gained by telling white lies.
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A little white lie is surely excusable.
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She fools herself into thinking she can control the situation, but gradually the little white lies, awkward evasions and chance meetings combine to expose her guilty secret.
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As little white lies go, we have been sold it well.
Times, Sunday Times
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If he refuses to "terrify" the child by telling him the truth, does this mean he will tell the child a white lie? vii) BTW, isn't it overstated to suggest it's always abusive to scare children?
Triablogue
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Some orange badges, quite obviously, are gained by telling white lies.
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Little white lies could save someone's feelings and prevent them from having to face bitter truths.
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To put it another way, we may need to tell one another and ourselves major whoppers, and not just little white lies, to replenish our interest in life.
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In this season, whenever Antonina crossed the park on her way to the trolley stop, church or market, she walked through corridors thickly scented by linden flowers and abuzz with half-truths -- in local slang, lipa also meant white lies.
‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’
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Britain is a nation of fibbers - and men tell more white lies than women - according to a new report.
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Do you get just a little sort of tap for a white lie but minced up for murder?
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A little white lie is surely excusable.
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If they ask, you could always tell a little white lie and say you were doing, I dunno, tai chi or something.
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Research revealed that untruths range from little white lies to huge whoppers aimed purely at personal gain.
