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

frankness honesty openness truth truthfulness uprightness

nonfiction reality

generalization

abstraction law observation principle universality

abstract principle loose statement sweeping statement

detail specific specificity

exaggeration harmless untruth little white lie mental dishonesty near truth partial truth slight stretch suggestio falsi trivial untruth untruth well-intentioned untruth