stretch the truth
to say something that is not completely honest in order to make someone or something seem better than it really is:
He was accused of stretching the truth about how much he had helped in the project.
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- lie
- make sth up
- perjury
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- venal
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Exaggerating & playing down