half-truth

Example Sentences

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Within weeks, truths, half-truths, and outright lies were hopelessly entangled.

From Literature

No one should be held hostage to other people’s decisions or half-truths.

From MarketWatch

Reaching for a new half-truth is no solution, and it doesn’t have to be.

From Salon

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

In the letter addressed to the Health Secretary Jeremy Miles, The British Dental Association Cymru Wales accused the Welsh government of pedalling "half-truths" about their messaging and statistics.

From BBC