Dictionary definition: white lie

Article: Emergence of white-lie telling in children between ...
Merrill - Palmer Quarterly;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...White-lie-telling behavior in 3 to 7-years ... videotaped responses could not discriminate the white-lie tellers from the control nonliars. Analysis ... children's expressive behavior revealed that white-lie tellers only differed from control nonliars ...

Article: A LITTLE WHITE LIE GROWS RED SOX BUNGLE CLEMENS ...
The Boston Globe;  July 19, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... fact is that Clemens told a little white lie Tuesday night and he left all of ... even be in the paper. "It was a white lie. We protected him because he asked ... Have any of you ever told a little white lie?" Why lie? "Ask him why," snapped ...

Article: Wishy-washy toast to a little White Lie
Dayton Daily News;  June 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... qualified to judge the newly released White Lie 2004 Early Season Chardonnay from ... That last part may be the real White Lie. But don't take my testosteronedriven ... suburban Columbus and who tasted the White Lie Chardonnay last weekend. She's ...

Article: The honor principle: when I told a 'white lie' I ...
Newsweek;  January 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ...When I told a 'white lie' I broke the trust that is fundamental ... with what might be called a "little white lie." I said that I'd made a doctor ... academy together. To me, that little white lie is the symbol of a temptation that everyone ...

Article: Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White ...
The China Journal;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, by John Fitzgerald. Sydney ... out for almost a century and have now been let back in again. The Big White Lie to which this title refers is that Chinese have usually been at the margin ...

Article: A white lie every day.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 23, 2008 ;     654 words ...THE average parent tells their child a white lie every day to steer a path through life's little difficulties ... dads found that 66 per cent were prepared to turn to a white lie if all else failed. The most common lie - told by 84 ...

Article: JUST A LITTLE WHITE LIE FROM THE STATE'S SPIN ...
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  August 28, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-28-1996 JUST A LITTLE WHITE LIE FROM THE STATE'S SPIN DOCTORS By ROD ALLEE Date: 08 ... will not affect service" -- but that's just a little white lie, just the kind of lie you'd expect from a bureaucrat ...