half-truth
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Add to that social media and its capacity to spread innuendo, half-truth, fabrication and common ignorance.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
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
I think it’s worth exploring at what point a half-truth is more dangerous than a lie.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
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
This half-truth was of great use to the poor fellow, who learned to substitute it for the real trouble in later years.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
No one should be held hostage to other people’s decisions or half-truths.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
Initial sessions tend to be colored by weeping, hesitancy and half-truths as the clinician and client get a feel for each other.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024
What Ana didn’t know was that the inspirational story Torres told was based on half-truths and lies.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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
Now I had two angry souls to appease with half-truths.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
