white house whitehouse \white-house\; n. v.
  • noun:
    1. a lie, an untruth. a false statement. a story without truth
    2. a statement that deviates from, or perverts the truth
  • verb:
    1. to lie. to tell an untruth
    2. uttering falsehoods or acting for the purpose of deception; intentional violation of truth; speaking untruths with the intention to deceive
    3. telling a fiction, a fable
    4. to mislead or misrepresent
    5. accomplishing a deceptive act
    usage:
    1. Tony Snow was whitehousing the media this afternoon, telling the press that President Bush has the best interests of America at heart
    2. President Bush whitehoused with his signing statement on Bill S.317, again directly implying he is above the law
    3. Rick pulled a tony snow to cover up not finishing his term paper
    4. Fox News has more whitehouse coverage than any other mainstream media, also known as Fair and Balanced news reporting
    syn:
    • a snow job, snowing, pulling a Tony Snow
    • beguile, blague, canard, cheat, cock-and-bull story, cover, deceitfulness, deceive, deception, delude, dishonesty, distort, distortion, draw the longbow, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, exaggeration, extend, fable, fairy tale, falsehood, falsification, falsify, falsity, farfetched story, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, forgery, fraudulence, frontage, ghost story, half-truth, inaccuracy, inveracity, legal fiction, lie, libel, little white lie, mendacity, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misrepresentation, misstate, misstatement, myth, palter, perjury, pious fiction, prevaricate, prevarication, shift, shift about, slight stretching, song and dance, speak falsely, straddle, stretch, stretch out, stretch the truth, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tell a lie, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, yarn

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