WHITE LIE

Meaning of WHITE LIE in English

( white lies)

If you refer to an untrue statement as a white lie , you mean that it is made to avoid hurting someone’s feelings or to avoid trouble, and not for an evil purpose.

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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне. 2006

WHITE LIE — a minor, polite, or harmless lie; fib.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WHITE LIE — lie about a trivial matter that is not intended to harm
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
WHITE LIE — ■ noun a harmless lie told to avoid hurting someone's feelings.
Concise Oxford English vocab
WHITE LIE — noun a harmless or small lie, especially one that you tell to avoid hurting sb
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WHITE LIE — ˌwhite ˈlie BrE AmE noun [countable] informal a lie that you tell someone in order to protect them or avoid …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WHITE LIE — (~s) If you refer to an untrue statement as a ~, you mean that it is made to avoid hurting …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
WHITE LIE — noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ What's the harm of a white lie if it will make her feel better? …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WHITE LIE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
WHITE LIE — {n. phr.} An innocent social excuse. * /I am too busy to go to their house for dinner tonight. I …
Slang English vocab
WHITE LIE — A harmless lie, one not told with a malicious intent, a lie told to reconcile people at variance.
Slang English vocab
WHITE LIE — See ↑ LIE 4
Longman Activator English vocab
WHITE LIE — {n. phr.} An innocent social excuse. * /I am too busy to go to their house for dinner tonight. I …
Словарь английских идиом
WHITE LIE — a harmless lie (told to be polite or to do something not seriously wrong) I told my boss a white …
English Idioms vocab
WHITE LIE — a small lie, a fib "You said you were 39, not 40." "Yes. I told a white lie."
English Idioms vocabulary
WHITE LIE — n. phr. An innocent social excuse. I am too busy to go to their house for dinner tonight. I will …
American Idioms English vocabulary
WHITE LIE — невинная ложь, ложь во спасение невинная (|святая) ложь
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
WHITE LIE — _n. ложь во спасение
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
WHITE LIE — невинная ложь, ложь во спасение
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
WHITE LIE — ложь во спасение, невинная ложь
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
WHITE LIE — ложь во спасение, невинная ложь
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
WHITE LIE — невинная ложь, ложь во спасение
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
WHITE LIE — невинная ложь, ложь во спасение
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
WHITE LIE — _n. ложь во спасение
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
WHITE LIE — n. ложь во спасение
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
WHITE LIE — невинная ложь, ложь во спасение невинная (|святая) ложь
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
WHITE LIE — невинная (|святая) ложь
Англо-Русский словарь
WHITE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) White Monk white corpuscle white blood cell Bourke White Margaret cabbage white white footed …
Английский словарь Британика
WHITE — I. ˈhwīt also ˈwī-; usu -īd.+V adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English white, whit, from Old English hwīt; akin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LIE — I. ˈlī verb ( lay ˈlā ; lain ˈlān ; or archaic lien ˈlï(ə)n ; ly·ing ˈlīiŋ ; lies ) …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LIE — (adj.) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition; as, …
Английский словарь Webster
LIE — ( adj. ) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WHITE — /hwuyt, wuyt/ , adj., whiter, whitest , n. , v. , whited, whiting . adj. 1. of the color of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LIE — lie 1 /luy/ , n. , v. , lied, lying . n. 1. a false statement made with deliberate intent …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WHITE — I. ˈhwīt, ˈwīt adjective ( whit·er ; whit·est ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hwīt; akin to Old High …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LIE — I. ˈlī intransitive verb ( lay ˈlā ; lain ˈlān ; ly·ing ˈlī-iŋ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English licgan; …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WHITE — noun a white pigment; as, venice white. 2. white ·superl gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary. 3. white …
Webster English vocab
LIE — noun ·see lye. 2. lie ·noun anything which misleads or disappoints. 3. lie ·adj to be still or quiet, like …
Webster English vocab
WHITE — [white] adj whit.er ; whit.est [ME, fr. OE hwit; akin to OHG hwiz white and prob. to OCS svetu light, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
LIE — [lie] vi lay ; lain ; ly.ing [ME, fr. OE licgan; akin to OHG ligen to lie, L lectus bed, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
WHITE — white, White BrE AmE waɪt hwaɪt — Preference poll, British English: waɪt 77%, hwaɪt 23%. ▷ whited ˈwaɪt ɪd ˈhwaɪt-, …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
LIE — I . / laɪ; NAmE / verb , noun —see also lie (II) ■ verb ( lies , lying , …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WHITE — / waɪt; NAmE / adjective , noun ■ adjective ( whiter , whit·est ) 1. having the colour of fresh …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WHITE — I. white 1 S1 W1 /waɪt/ BrE AmE adjective [ Word Family: noun : ↑ white , ↑ whiteness , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LIE — I. lie 1 S2 W1 /laɪ/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense lay /leɪ/, past participle lain /leɪn/, present participle …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WHITE — adj., n., & v. --adj. 1 resembling a surface reflecting sunlight without absorbing any of the visible rays; of the …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LIE — n. & v. --n. 1 an intentionally false statement (tell a lie; pack of lies). 2 imposture; false belief (live …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LIE — v. & n. --v.intr. (lying; past lay; past part. lain) 1 be in or assume a horizontal position on a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WHITE — adj., n., & v. adj. 1 resembling a surface reflecting sunlight without absorbing any of the visible rays; of the …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LIE — n. & v. n. 1 an intentionally false statement (tell a lie; pack of lies). 2 imposture; false belief (live …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LIE — v. & n. v.intr. (lying; past lay; past part. lain) 1 be in or assume a horizontal position on a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
WHITE — adj., n., & v. --adj. 1. resembling a surface reflecting sunlight without absorbing any of the visible rays; of the …
Oxford English vocab
LIE — 1. v. & n. --v.intr. (lying; past lay; past part. lain) 1. be in or assume a horizontal position on …
Oxford English vocab
LIE — I. POSITION OR SITUATION /laɪ/ ( lies, lying, lay, lain) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WHITE — ( whiter, whitest, whites) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Something that …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WHITE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
LIE — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a mist hangs/lies somewhere (= stays in a place ) ▪ A thick mist …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WHITE — n. white whale White Monk white corpuscle white blood cell Bourke White Margaret cabbage white white footed mouse great white …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
WHITE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
LIE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
LIE — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big , big fat ( informal ), great , monstrous ▪ He told a big fat …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
LIE — INDEX: to lie down 1. to lie down after you have been standing or sitting 2. to be in a …
Longman Activator English vocab
WHITE — adj. 1 snow-white, snowy, chalk-white, chalky, ivory, creamy, milky, milk-white, oyster-white, off-white; silver, hoary Many buildings in the tropics are …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
LIE — v. 1 recline, stretch out, be prostrate or recumbent or prone or supine I'm going to lie down for a …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
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