Today’s Words That Work: Jibe with

A jibe with means to be in harmony or accord; to agree. (Don’t make the mistake of using “jive with” instead – a common error.)

Example (as used by Judith Warner in a NYT review of Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris by Sarah Maza): “The story of incest simply wasn’t one that Depression-era France was willing to hear. It didn’t jibe with the image journalists spread of the Noziere couple as outstanding citizens.”