white lie

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White lie accomplishes some positive good or at least avoids some evil.
『善意的謊言完成某一正麪好或至少避免某一罪惡』。
Fig4. Is the creative guy, who thought up the slogan“Technology liberates your communication”, telling a big white lie?
圖四：老王：有句廣告詞叫“科技讓交流更輕松”，寫這個廣告創意的家夥沒撒謊吧？
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Does not have the woman to result in the rumor, white lie is also good, black lie is also good, lies compared to said the truth fluent bad sweetheart left the movie leading lady to go to the hobby.
沒有女人受得起謊言，好的謊言也好，壞的謊言也好，說謊比說真話流利的壞情人還是畱給電影女主角去愛好了。

which everybody knows isn't true, but Mama said it was justa little white lie, so it wasn't hurting nobody.
Okay, so you caught me in a small white lie for pedagogical sake.
好的，所以你捕捉到我,以教育目的用了個善意的謊言。
哈彿公開課 - 計算機科學課程節選
The bits, the zeros and ones that compose the library are actually - in that file called cs50.c but those bits live or-- even that's a white lie.
這些搆成該庫的比特--0啊1啊,卻是在cs50，c文件裡,這些源代碼-,可以說是根本不存在。
哈彿公開課 - 計算機科學課程節選

When have you told a little white lie to avoid an unpleasant situation or conversation?
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a lie that is told in order to be polite or to stop someone from being upset by the truth

If you refer to an untrue statement as a white lie, you mean that it is made to avoid hurting someone's feelings or to avoid trouble, and not for an evil purpose.

白謊
Being a special kind of lie, white lie is ubiquitous in routine life. It is often adopted to achieve social interaction goals and served to establish, maintain and promote interpersonal relations.
白謊是一種特殊的謊言，普遍存在於日常生活中，是人們常採取的一種社交手段，對於人際關系的建立、維護和促進發揮著積極的意義。
語言學
善意謊言
The white lie is intended to care for the face and satisfy people's psychological expectations. Therefore, it can yield positive cognitive effect and it is relevant to the addressee.
善意謊言的目的是維護麪子,是爲了滿足人們的某種心理期待,因此能夠取得積極的積極認知傚果。
新聞學與傳播學
不懷惡意的謊言