Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

little white lie

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English

Syllables: lit-tle white lie
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of white lie.

Example Sentences

"What did you do then? Why, you made me say to myself, 'Ah, it would have been so much kinder and more blameless to ease him off with a little white lie, and send him away feeling that if he could not have bread, the gentle treatment was at least something to be grateful for!'"
"Stop sending letters / Letters always get burned / It's not like the movies / They fed us on little white lies"
"“It’s quite common for people to tell a little white lie when they’re declining invitations,” says Elaine Swann, etiquette expert and author of Elaine Swann’s Book of Modern Etiquette. Swann says people do this to avoid offense and “soften the blow”."

Inflected Forms

little white lies (plural)

Questions

What does little white lie mean?: Alternative form of white lie.

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