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- noun Plural form of
fibber .
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Examples
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If their story was untrue, they, not the Republicans or Democrats were the fibbers!
CNN Truth Squad: No eye care until you're blind in one eye? 2009
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Created in homage to 19th-century publican Will Ritson – who persuaded his customers that the local Wasdale Valley turnips grew big enough to house sheep in – it sees fibbers from far and wide recounting tall tales.
Enchanted Woodland | Crunch 2011 | The World's Biggest Liar Competition 2011
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That has exposed an ugly truth for Cumbrians: The best fibbers are increasingly coming from other parts of Britain, and even other parts of the world.
Honestly, This Part of England Has the World's Biggest Liars Alistair MacDonald 2011
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"Faith fibbers like Giberson," Dennett wrote, "are polluting the media with their misrepresentations of the New Atheism."
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I think most of us would like to get an apology from the ideologues and other fibbers who told us there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Whereas if they were The Liars we would glean that they are no ordinary fibbers, truth-economists or mere white liars, but noteworthy falsehood-merchants whose duplicity is worthy of our respect, even fear, if not admiration.
Klaxons, Liars, Editors, where's the the? Johnny Sharp 2010
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I think most of us would like to get an apology from the ideologues and other fibbers who told us there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
More Apologies! Now! 2010
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The question is why the major non-politically-leaning networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN don't regularly lambaste these guys and make them look like the fibbers and cheats that they are.
Brian Ross: The Steep Distortion Curve of Republican Populism Brian Ross 2010
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Liz: Right, though we may have two more fibbers on our hands: In the retrospective before the finale, Evangeline Lilly and Matthew Fox talked about how Jack and Kate were so perfectly tragic because they were two people who could work together but were kept apart by fate.
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"Faith fibbers like Giberson," Dennett wrote, "are polluting the media with their misrepresentations of the New Atheism."
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: The Temptation of Faith Fibbing for Jesus 2010
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