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Half-truth   Listen
noun
half-truth  n.  (pl. half-truths)  A partially true statement, especially one intended to deceive or mislead.






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"Half-truth" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the course of examination answered all questions truly, but not given the whole truth, the most important truth, that he was the wrong person, he would have come very near to telling a lie, for a half-truth is often a falsehood. And his defence must have been the justa causa, viz. either that he might in charity or for religion's sake save a priest, or again that the judge had no right to interrogate him ...
— Apologia pro Vita Sua • John Henry Newman

... forces on the side of the greater settlement. Cynicism is never more than a half-truth, and because man is imperfect it does not follow that he must be futile. Russia is a land of strange silences, but it is manifest that whatever the innermost quality of the Czar may be, he is no clap-trap vulgar conqueror ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various



Words linked to "Half-truth" :   misrepresentation, deception



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