Riddle UpRiddle Up - riddles, brain teasers and puzzles
MediumRhyming Riddle

I'm sometimes white and always wrong. I can break a heart and hurt the strong. I can build love or tear it down. I can make a smile or bring a frown.

Riddle

I'm sometimes white and always wrong. I can break a heart and hurt the strong. I can build love or tear it down. I can make a smile or bring a frown.

Choose an answer

A.A rumor
B.Gossip
C.Deceit
D.A lie
Hint: It's a 2-word phrase with 4 letters, starting with "A".

Answer

A lie

Why this is the answer

A "white lie" is still a lie at its core, and lies -- whether cruel or well-intentioned -- can devastate relationships or, in rare cases, be told to protect someone's feelings.

This riddle is filed under Rhyming Riddles and rated Medium.

Related Riddles

All Rhyming Riddles
HardRhyming Riddle

A useful thing, hard, firm, and white, outside in shaggy robe bedight; Hallowed within right cleverly, it goes...

MediumRhyming Riddle

It cannot be seen, it cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, Lies behind stars and under hills, and...

MediumRhyming Riddle

Barren location, infertile and dry; my name means "to leave", it's not hard to see why.

MediumRhyming Riddle

I march before armies, a thousand salute me. My fall can bring victory, but no one would shoot me. The wind is...

HardRhyming Riddle

My first, though water, cures no thirst, My next alone has soul, And when he lives upon my first, He then is c...

EasyRhyming Riddle

Before I grow I'm small. When I'm old I grow tall. When I die I give a mighty fall. What am I?

MediumRhyming Riddle

We are emeralds and diamonds, Lost by the moon; Found by the sun, And picked up soon.

MediumRhyming Riddle

My life is often a volume of grief, your help is needed to turn a new leaf. Stiff is my spine and my body is p...

MediumRhyming Riddle

A book once owned by the wealthy, now rare to find. Never for sale and often left behind. What am I?

Explore
Riddles Categories
Share