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Answer by David DeCrane for lie vs fabricate. When to use which one in what...

Prevaricate is the word you want. It essentially means to lie but it’s nicer in, say, political debates than to say someone is a liar or mendacious.

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Answer by leftaroundabout for lie vs fabricate. When to use which one in what...

To lie means to deliberately deceive by telling something that you know or at least believe to be false in the sense of not true. You tell something that you think is not real.If you fabricate...

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Answer by Peter for lie vs fabricate. When to use which one in what situation?

To fabricate originally was to make, and this is still one of the meanings. One can fabricate a story, a piece of cloth, or a car. To fabricate a story is to make it up, and the fabricated story is...

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Answer by linguisticturn for lie vs fabricate. When to use which one in what...

As a commenter suggested, when we use fabricate in the context of deception,1 we imply that some effort went into inventing or producing something disingenuous, either a story or an artifact, like a...

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lie vs fabricate. When to use which one in what situation?

I'm having hard time distinguishing between these words and come to ask you gracious people for help.I recently learned the word "fabricate". I got into the dictionary for more details, and found as...

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