Sentence examples for harmless lie from inspiring English sources

Is there such a thing as a harmless lie?

Or was that direction kind of just a youthful ambition or even a simple, if harmless, lie?

It was a harmless lie, but I had told so many by then I had the uneasy feeling I would be fired.

The hatchlings looked harmless lying on a heat rock in a terrarium, and the store owners were happy not to correct that impression.

A friend of mine learned that an old but suspect acquaintance had indeed been an informer - but he had told his controller only harmless lies.

It was Mr. Schwartz who coined the phrase "truthful hyperbole," referring to Mr. Trump's notion of harmless lies, in "The Art of the Deal". He said that Mr. Trump loved the phrase.

Such non-deceptive untruths are not to be confused with white lies, i.e., harmless lies (Bok 1978, 58; Sweetser 1987, 54; 52 n. 73) or prosocial lies (also called social lies), i.e., lies that do not harm social life but protect it (Meibauer 2014, 152; Sweetser 1987, 54), or fibs, i.e., inconsequential lies told for selfish reasons (Sweetser 1987, 54).

Now, I am sick of these harmless lies and little white lies.

Telling harmless lies to children is just part of being a parent, right?

To start getting over this, begin by telling inconsequential, harmless lies.

Study 2 was designed to avoid potential self-selection effects by randomly pairing principals and agents; it found that observing agents telling harmful black lies or seemingly harmless white lies led to increased immoral actions by their principals.