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white lie
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  • He comforts her with a little white lie.  (source)
  • He'd been on my mind a lot that weekend, if only because I was suddenly aware of every little white lie I told, from the "Fine" I replied when my dad asked me how school was on Friday to how I'd nodded when my mom asked me the night before if I was excited about getting back to the Models.  (source)
    white lie = unimportant
  • Indeed, it seems to me that my odd conduct can be very plausibly explained in terms of my wish to avoid any possibility of hearing any further such nonsense concerning his lordship; that is to say, I have chosen to tell white lies in both instances as the simplest means of avoiding unpleasantness.  (source)
    white lies = unimportant lies (told to be polite or helpful)
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  • So he'd told a little white lie to the rabbi this morning about how she'd converted and how they were raising their boys in the Jewish faith.  (source)
    white lie = unimportant lie (she is making a joke when she thinks of it that way)
  • White lies were easy enough, but anything bigger and I was screwed.†  (source)
    White lies = unimportant lies (especially when told to be polite or helpful)
  • Later, I found out that your father had told you a white lie.†  (source)
    white lie = an unimportant lie (especially one told to be polite or helpful)
  • It wasn't that far so I decided to walk, and while I did I imagined rooms all over the city that housed archives no one has ever heard of, like last words, white lies, and false descendants of Catherine the Great.†  (source)
    white lies = unimportant lies (especially when told to be polite or helpful)
  • I wondered if Lauren was telling a white lie to stick up for me, or if she was just too embarrassed to tell the truth.†  (source)
    white lie = an unimportant lie (especially one told to be polite or helpful)
  • There have been little white lies, of coursetelling him I don't mind his coming home late; pretending to enjoy a bedroom encounter when in fact it repulsed me; defending some action of his to his face when behind his back I believe he handled it incorrectly-but never a lie of this magnitude!†  (source)
    white lies = unimportant lies (especially when told to be polite or helpful)
  • And I said, "He told me the number," which was another white lie.†  (source)
    white lie = an unimportant lie (especially one told to be polite or helpful)
  • Mrs. Larkin, I may have told little white lies in my life, but never a lie that mattered, that hurt any one.†  (source)
    white lies = unimportant lies (especially when told to be polite or helpful)
  • The white lie surprised Langdon.†  (source)
    white lie = an unimportant lie (especially one told to be polite or helpful)
  • The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.†  (source)
    white lies = unimportant lies (especially when told to be polite or helpful)
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