"The Ways We Lie" 10 examples

"We lie. We all do. We exaggerate, we minimize, we avoid confrontation, we spare peoples feelings, we conveniently forget, we keep secrets, we justify lying to the big-guy institutions".

1. The White Lie - Wife "Honey does this new outfit I got from the farmers market on sale look good on   me" Husband looks at it and thinks for a second "Of course it does"
2. Facades - A slob who has trash all over his house and is a mess constantly, goes out and buys a nice suit for a date or a job interview to make who ever he's seeing think he's high class or that he takes care of himself pretty good.
3. Ignoring the Plain Facts - A highly honored officer in the military has been getting complaints about crossing the line while in action and doing things he shouldn't be doing. Instead of giving him dis-honorable leave, his commanding officer just moves him to a different base or stations him in a different state, instead of addressing and fixing the problem then and there.
4. Deflecting - My brother is being accused by my parents for leaving garbage everywhere, and he deflects the topic by telling on me saying,"Well Chad got an F on his test" so now the accusations are on me instead of him.
5. Omission - My friend tells me he got in a fight over the weekend and him and his buddy's beat the guy up for trying to start something, but leaves out the fact that the guy beat the snot out of him before his buddies jumped in and helped. Or he just leaves the buddy's part out of it and say he beat some one up.
6. Stereotypes and Cliches - "That blond girl trying to read the menu must be having trouble because she's probably dumb because she's blond"
7. Groupthink - John is at a buddy's house with his friends talking about girls and his friends are saying very vulgar things about girls, and John himself has a girlfriend, and instead of speaking up and disagreeing with them he goes along with what there saying.
8. Out and Out lies - Mom,"Chad did you eat the cookies" Son,"No mom the cookie monster did"
9. Dismissal - A friend tells his buddy that he doesn't want to go to a party because he's scared of the consequences, and the buddy tells him that he does want to go to the party.
10. Delusion - When someone forgets there home work and is giving the teacher excuses why he forget it and he is giving the teacher so many excuses that he sees them as facts, when truly they aren't.