| However, the mechanism by which they form is poorly understood, and they were dismissed for a long time as exaggerations or fibs told by sailors. |
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| Sailors have long reported sightings of these waves, but reports had mainly been dismissed either as exaggeration or outright fibs. |
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| Charitably, I think it's fair to say that he's telling huge and easily disprovable fibs. |
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| If we can't allow Chevalier her little fibs, we might as well ban all historical fiction. |
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| One of the things that always makes me suspicious about alleged public fibs is misplaced outrage. |
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| Although most falsehoods detected in this study were inconsequential, fibs do have financial implications. |
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| And, you know, what it all boils down to is just being a genuine nice guy and never get caught telling fibs. |
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| With so many fibs and half-truths floating around, it was no wonder that women had trouble making up their minds. |
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| And now there are stories floating around about other embellishments and fibs that pad his past, like a Daytime Emmy he might have never received. |
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| It's one thing to build a case on fibs only you know to be lies. |
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| That means smear campaigns, dirty politics and lots and lots of fibs. |
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| This is backed up by an overwhelming 96 per cent of British women who admit they lie, with almost half saying they tell little white fibs most days. |
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| These little white fibs give me an uneasy feeling, and I begin to wonder why the shop would lie, when I am here to help save them thousands of dollars in fines. |
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| Friday night's fun events, in and around a packed village hall, propelled proceedings into an orbit of fibs and fables fortified with folk tunes and jigs. |
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| So long as I didn't tell out-and-out fibs and believed in my recommendations, I considered that what I was doing was ethical. |
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| One of the political fibs that was being floated today on why we have the Senate was brought forward by Liberal members. |
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| He used to tell whopping great fibs about his past life, all of them designed to demonstrate what a wonderful, brave and brilliant person he was. |
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| They are telling fibs and trying to stir up the Eurosceptism that is latent in much of the British press and in parts of public opinion to their electoral advantage. |
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| Be sure the group fibs out an affinity group check-in sheet. |
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| Whether they are little white lies or serious porkies, a huge 94 per cent of the 5,000 respondents confessed to telling fibs, with 48 per cent lying daily. |
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