Meanings of invent stories in English

He'd invent stories so as to discredit any whistleblower or hacker-turned-informant.

Forcing children to invent stories of abuse is abuse.

And she continued to invent stories almost in mockery.

His companion began to invent stories about certain suspicious movements he had heard of lately.

She could invent stories by the yard, but she couldn't write a page of English.

They invent stories about you, which I deny.

The Tyrathca don't invent stories, they can't.'

The longing to invent stories grew with violence; everything I heard or read became food for my distemper.

Pray don't invent stories about me.

He said he would use material for essays from questionnaires the students completed but would invent stories if necessary.

Like Chaucer, and unlike Scott, he did not invent stories, but told the old stories over again with a new charm.

As such Dickensians have a great affection for it, and there is no need to invent stories about it to justify their reverence.

My acquaintance then said they knew me not, and others were at liberty to invent stories, and say all manner of evil of me.

Investigation, however, shows that in illiterate communities not merely do the people as a whole not invent stories, but they do not even tell stories.

Now more than ever we need the truths inherent in invented stories.

In addition to the invented stories, this is lying and misinformation by omission.