half-truth
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Reaching for a new half-truth is no solution, and it doesn’t have to be.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026
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
Some of those are relatively harmless; using this half-truth to explain Leonardo DiCaprio’s dating habits primarily hurts DiCaprio, who hardly needs our sympathy.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2022
If a song can make you love a lie, or at least a complicated half-truth, this one does it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2019
I need to give him something, so I tell him it’s my dad, which isn’t exactly a lie, more of a half-truth because it’s only one part of a much bigger picture.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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
He said half-truths were also told, so people did not know about the risk of their treatment, the availability of alternatives, or even whether they were infected.
From BBC ● May 21, 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
We told him a series of half-truths about why we were in Johannesburg, and that we greatly desired jobs in the mines.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
