half-truth
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Johnson’s mother, Melissa Johnson, on Wednesday said Davis “painted a negative half-truth about our son” when he described Johnson immediately after the shooting as someone with a “significant violent criminal history.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
I think it’s worth exploring at what point a half-truth is more dangerous than a lie.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
And it’s also considered a misrepresentation to state a half-truth, leaving out vital information needed to place a statement in context.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2021
Who among us hasn't engaged with a story that has no predictable ending, with a half-truth that, upon further examination, is more fiction than fact?
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2020
“We’re too different,” she said finally, choosing a half-truth.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
No one should be held hostage to other people’s decisions or half-truths.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
People have to also be able to evaluate those words, spotting the half-truths, hyperbole, ambiguities, inaccuracies, and values behind those words — and those skills go back to social studies.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025
Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State, Al Schmidt, said “spreading videos and other information that lack context and sharing social posts with half-truths and even outright lies is harmful to our representative democracy”.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2024
Technically, I’m sure a product expert could say that some of the product did penetrate into the top layer of wood fibers, but I feel half-truths are whole lies.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
Within weeks, truths, half-truths, and outright lies were hopelessly entangled.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
