half-truth
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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 told her I needed to think about it on my own for a while,” Joaquin said instead, which he considered a half-truth and therefore not really a lie.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
