Possible Clues:

• Stretches the truth to rest Stokes initially
• Guns and Roses "Patience" album
• Isn't forthright
• Misleads
• Whoppers?
• 'Debts and ___ are generally mixed together': Rabelais
• Tells it like it ain't?
• 'All untrue!'
• They sometimes come in a pack
• Claims to have a nonexistent girlfriend, say