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fibbery en · NOUN

Etymology

From fib + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
    • Instead, lenders appear to be complicit in the rampant fibbery that is one of the root causes of our continuing mortgage nightmare. 2008 April 6, Gretchen Morgenson, “A Road Not Taken by Lenders”, in New York Times:

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