No - there's a difference between putting a positive spin on something, etc., and out-and-out lying. Furthermore, it is a general understanding that a limited amount of minor "fudging" on a cv is pardonable.

It's the same kind of difference as stealing directly and stealing by finding. Or a politician spinning and a politician lying. ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman" - and dancing on the end of a pin, Clinton wasn't actually lying. Not technically on the basis of a legal definition.)

That "general understanding" is where the heart of "dishonesty in society" really lies. It's what corrupts honest people into adopting dishonesty as a way of life. The occasional out and out case fibbing episode like this is trivial in comparison.

That's what I mean by "cast the first stone" - it seems to me there's a whiff of hypocrisy drifting around.