A lie, typically a boast or hyperbole, that can be played of as a joke. Depending on if the audience believes the lie, the liar decides whether or not the statement was intended to be taken seriously.
In between a white lie and black lie, a gray lie is when you lie in order to serve the best interest of all parties involved.
Mary told her best friend a gray lie about not calling the police when she asked her in hopes her best friend wouldn't impulsively escalate acting on her impulsive self-harm behavior that were already taking place before the police arrived.
When a hipster is called a hipster and they claim against it stating that they do not conform to the labels of the people claiming to be either above or completely separate from society.
Normal Person: Stupid hipster. Thinking you're so cool.
Hipster (telling The Hipster Lie): Whatever, I'm not a hipster, you just don't understand me, tool.
China's infamously-gluttonous and dishonest mid-29th-century leader.
Due to his prodigious appetite and habitual fibbery, Chow En-Lie was constantly having to undergo cosmetic surgery to reduce belly-fat and trim his nose shorter. Thank goodness for acupuncture, or these multiple operations would have caused a nationwide shortage of pain-killers.