Synonyms for white lie

Grammar : Noun

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Définition of white lie

noun little lie

Example sentences :

She could not bring herself to speak a lie to him, not even a white lie!
Extract from : « The White Lie » by William Le Queux

So he invented a white lie, and 88 nobody questioned it because of his uniform.
Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath

If the white lie ceases in married life, the couple drifts apart.
Extract from : « Moral » by Ludwig Thoma

This was a white lie, but he considered it admissible in his friend's behalf.
Extract from : « They Looked and Loved » by Mrs. Alex McVeigh Miller

"I beg pardon, Captain," he said, to which he added a white lie.
Extract from : « Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyalty » by J. W. de Forest

He forgave her for what he was pleased to call, in his mind, the white lie of her comfort.
Extract from : « Ann Arbor Tales » by Karl Edwin Harriman

A white lie today, tomorrow a blacker one, each leading to another.
Extract from : « Wanderers » by Knut Hamsun

The Jesuits, say their opponents, teach that at times a "white lie" is permissible.
Extract from : « The Wings of the Morning » by Louis Tracy

She felt that Maud's curiosity was such that it justified a white lie.
Extract from : « By the Light of the Soul » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

What is the harm of such a white lie as that would have been?
Extract from : « Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune » by A. D. Crake

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