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
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
