An unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite).
Roget 702:
cunning,
craft;
cunningness†,
craftiness
etc.
adj.;
subtlety,
artificiality;
maneuvering
etc.
v.;
temporization;
circumvention.
chicane,
chicanery;
sharp practice,
knavery,
jugglery†;
concealment
etc.
528;
guile,
doubling,
duplicity
etc.
(falsehood)
544;
foul play.
diplomacy,
politics;
Machiavelism;
jobbery,
backstairs influence.
art,
artifice;
device,
machination;
plot
etc.
(plan)
626;
maneuver,
stratagem,
dodge,
sidestep,
artful dodge,
wile;
trick,
trickery
etc.
(deception)
545;
ruse,
ruse de guerre [Fr.];
finesse,
side blow,
thin end of the wedge,
shift,
go by,
subterfuge,
evasion;
white lie
etc.
(untruth)
546;
juggle,
tour de force;
tricks of the trade,
tricks upon travelers;
espieglerie [Fr.];
net,
trap
etc.
545.
Ulysses,
Machiavel,
sly boots,
fox,
reynard;
Scotchman;
Jew,
Yankee;
intriguer,
intrigant†;
floater [U.S.],
Indian giver [U.S.],
keener [U.S.],
repeater [U.S.].
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Roget 520:
equivocalness
etc.
adj.;
double meaning
etc.
516;
ambiguity,
double entente,
double entendre [Fr.],
pun,
paragram†,
calembour†,
quibble,
equivoque [Fr.],
anagram;
conundrum
etc.
(riddle)
533;
play on words,
word play
etc.
(wit)
842;
homonym,
homonymy [Gramm.];
amphiboly†,
amphibology†;
ambilogy†,
ambiloquy†.
Sphinx,
Delphic oracle.
equivocation
etc.
(duplicity)
544;
white lie,
mental reservation
etc.
(concealment)
528;
paltering.
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Roget 617:
pretext,
pretense,
pretension,
plea†;
allegation,
advocation;
ostensible motive,
ostensible ground,
ostensible reason,
phony reason;
excuse
etc.
(vindication)
937;
subterfuge;
color;
gloss,
guise,
cover.
loop hole,
starting hole;
how to creep out of,
salvo,
come off;
way of escape.
handle,
peg to hang on,
room locus standi [Lat.];
stalking-horse,
cheval de bataille [Fr.],
cue.
pretense
etc.
(untruth)
546;
put off,
dust thrown in the eyes;
blind;
moonshine;
mere pretext,
shallow pretext;
lame excuse,
lame apology;
tub to a whale;
false plea,
sour grapes;
makeshift,
shift,
white lie;
special pleading
etc.
(sophistry)
477;
soft sawder
etc.
(flattery)
933†.
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Roget 528:
concealment;
hiding
etc.
v.;
occultation,
mystification.
seal of secrecy;
screen
etc.
530;
disguise
etc.
530;
masquerade;
masked battery;
hiding place
etc.
530;
cryptography,
steganography†;
freemasonry.
stealth,
stealthiness,
sneakiness;
obreption†;
slyness
etc.
(cunning)
702.
latitancy†,
latitation†;
seclusion
etc.
893;
privacy,
secrecy,
secretness†;
incognita.
reticence;
reserve;
mental reserve,
reservation;
arriere pensee [Fr.],
suppression,
evasion,
white lie,
misprision;
silence
etc.
(taciturnity)
585;
suppression of truth
etc.
544;
underhand dealing;
closeness,
secretiveness
etc.
adj.;
mystery.
latency
etc.
526;
snake in the grass;
secret
etc.
533;
stowaway.
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Roget 546:
untruth,
falsehood,
lie,
story,
thing that is not,
fib,
bounce,
crammer,
taradiddle†,
whopper;
jhuth†.
forgery,
fabrication,
invention;
misstatement,
misrepresentation;
perversion,
falsification,
gloss,
suggestio falsi [Lat.];
exaggeration
etc.
549.
invention,
fabrication,
fiction;
fable,
nursery tale;
romance
etc.
(imagination)
515;
absurd story,
untrue story,
false story,
trumped up story,
trumped up statement;
thing devised by the enemy;
canard;
shave,
sell,
hum,
traveler's tale,
Canterbury tale,
cock and bull story,
fairy tale,
fake;
claptrap.
press agent's yarn;
puff,
puffery
(exaggeration)
549.
myth,
moonshine,
bosh,
all my eye and Betty Martin,
mare's nest,
farce.
irony;
half truth,
white lie,
pious fraud;
mental reservation
etc.
(concealment)
528.
pretense,
pretext;
false plea
etc.
617;
subterfuge,
evasion,
shift,
shuffle,
make-believe;
sham
etc.
(deception)
545.
profession,
empty words;
Judas kiss
etc.
(hypocrisy)
544;
disguise
etc.
(mask)
530.
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