Thesaurus / half-truth
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synonyms for half-truth
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- distortion
- fabrication
- fakery
- fallacy
- falsity
- misstatement
- perjury
- prevarication
- sham
- tall tale
- untruth
- canard
- dissimulation
- equivocation
- erroneousness
- error
- fable
- fallaciousness
- falseness
- feigning
- fib
- fiction
- figment
- fraud
- hogwash
- line
- mendacity
- pretense
- story
- tale
- untruthfulness
- whopper
- yarn
- fibbery
- untruism
See also synonyms for: half-truths
- generalization
- abstraction
- law
- observation
- principle
- universality
- abstract principle
- loose statement
- sweeping statement
- exaggeration
- harmless untruth
- little white lie
- mental dishonesty
- near truth
- partial truth
- slight stretch
- suggestio falsi
- trivial untruth
- untruth
- well-intentioned untruth
antonyms for half-truth
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How to use half-truth in a sentence
And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
THE TALE OF GRANDFATHER MOLEARTHUR SCOTT BAILEYTruth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOUIt is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDA small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTHilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTAll changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.
TINTINNALOGIA, OR, THE ART OF RINGINGRICHARD DUCKWORTH AND FABIAN STEDMANThe Vine is a universal favorite, and rarely out of view; while it often seems to cover half the ground in sight.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYWe are apt to think of these little ones as doing right only when under compulsion: but this is far from the truth.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYBig Reginald took their lives at pool, and pocketed their half-crowns in an easy genial way, which almost made losing a pleasure.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSI ask for half a dozen projectors or so in every school, and for a well-stocked storehouse of films.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSWORDS RELATED TO HALF-TRUTH
- canard
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- distortion
- equivocation
- erroneousness
- error
- fable
- fabrication
- fakery
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- falseness
- falsity
- feigning
- fib
- fibbery
- fiction
- figment
- fraud
- half-truth
- hogwash
- line
- mendacity
- misstatement
- perjury
- pretense
- prevarication
- sham
- story
- tale
- tall tale
- untruism
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- whopper
- yarn
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.