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• Piled on the applesauce
• Dissembled and then some
• Spoke with forked tongue
• Told fibs
• Bent the truth
• Betrayed, in a way
• Messed with the facts
• Misled
• Told an untruth
• Was inventive, and then some
• Wasn't true
• Stretched the truth
• Told whoppers
• Told a tale
• Was more than inventive