half-truth
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“Before he took the time to gather the facts, he painted a negative half-truth about our son and the unfolding case,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Just a day after the intelligence officer’s report, the Army offered a clarifying half-truth: It identified the object as a crashed weather balloon.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2021
Toobin says that this half-truth and falsehood, respectively, were a rhetorical success because “simplicity rarely loses to complexity in battles in the public square.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2020
Not for him the mealy-mouthed half-truth, the small evasion.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 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
Tom’s whole life was constructed on lies—falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
