social lie
noun
An untrue statement intended to ease social relations; a white lie.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Abel Bywater (1795–1873).
- histrionise
- histrionism
- histrionize
- hit
- hit-and-miss
- hit-and-run
- hitch
- Hitchcockian
- Hitchcock, Sir Alfred
- Hitchens, Ivon
- hitcher
- hitch-hike
- hitch-hiker
- hitch one's wagon to a star
- hi-tech
- Hite, Shere
- hithe
- hither
- hither and thither (also hither and yon)
- hither and yon
- hitherto
- hitherward
- hit home
- hit it off
- Hitler, Adolf