Synonyms and related words :
bickering, blague, boggling, bouncer, canard, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, cock-and-bull story, coloring, confabulation, distortion, dodging, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, fairy tale, false coloring, false swearing, falsehood, falsification, falsifying, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fencing, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, hairsplitting, half-truth, hedging, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, logic-chopping, mendacity, miscoloring, misconstruction, misrepresentation, misstatement, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, perjury, perversion, pettifoggery, pious fiction, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, slight stretching, story, straining, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tergiversation, trichoschistism, trumped-up story, untruth, weasel words, white lie, yarn