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
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
Not for him the mealy-mouthed half-truth, the small evasion.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 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
“We’re too different,” she said finally, choosing a half-truth.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
