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What (who) is half-truth - definition
DECEPTIVE STATEMENT THAT IS ONLY PARTLY TRUE
Half-truths; Half truth; Technical truth; Partial truth; Partially true; Mostly true; Partly true; Partly false; Half Truth; Selective truth; Selective Truth; Selective-truth
half-truth
also half truth
(half-truths)
If you describe statements as half-truths, you mean that they are only partly based on fact and are intended or likely to deceive people.
The article had been full of errors and half truths.
N-COUNT
half-truth
¦ noun a statement conveying only part of the truth.
Half-truth
A half-truth is a deceptive statement that includes some element of truth. The statement might be partly true, the statement may be totally true but only part of the whole truth, or it may use some deceptive element, such as improper punctuation, or double meaning, especially if the intent is to deceive, evade, blame or misrepresent the truth.
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Half-truth
A half-truth is a deceptive statement that includes some element of truth. The statement might be partly true, the statement may be totally true, but only part of the whole truth, or it may use some deceptive element, such as improper punctuation, or double meaning, especially if the intent is to deceive, evade, blame or misrepresent the truth.
Examples of use of half-truth
1. "He tells the half–truth, the partial truth and anything but the truth," said Sen.
2. Blair won three Elections with the aid of his inspired trafficker in half–truth.
3. The BJP, which on Monday called the findings of the Pathak Authority a ‘half–truth‘, dubbed the report a fraud.
4. Morrison said, "There is a half truth because my training has been with individuals who have worked with Americans.
5. Other parts of his story about his life in Switzerland also turned out to be fiction or half–truth.