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half-truth

NOUN
  1. a partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead

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  • Can't wait to see these fear mongering, half-truth ads on TV. Club for Growth targets Democrats over health care
  • It was a farrago of non-sequitur and half-truth, attacking the questioners for things they had neither said nor thought. THE SCAR
  • Now on the one hand, as we have seen, every brick making up this massive conceptual edifice is a friable mixture of untruth, half-truth, hypothesis or assertion. Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
  • The point of the near-constant dispensation of lies, half-truths and irrelevancies is to create an atmosphere in which it becomes almost impossible to distinguish honesty from deception, fact from fantasy.
  • You're contemplating telling Tamara this half-truth tonight. THE BROKEN GOD
  • From the beginning the Press has conspired in perpetuating what the sadly departed and sorely missed George Carlin called the American Okee-doke, the pretty lies and comforting half-truths that our corporate overseers use to keep us in line by getting us to accept the illusion that all is well in this great Republic of ours, feeding us, as Carlin says in his last concert for HBO, "just enough bullshit to hold things together. Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and the American Okee-doke
  • McCarthy's blend of half-truths and lies ruined many careers in government and the professions.
  • His own books and memoirs are a farrago of half-truth and out-right invention.
  • How could it have avoided becoming just another part of the whole elaborate web of half-truths, misinformation and spin?
  • For their credulity, they are showered with lies, exaggerations and half-truths, all of which find a sizable percentage of proponents among the voters.
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