half-truths in English

noun
1
a statement that conveys only part of the truth, especially one used deliberately in order to deceive someone.
There is more than one way not to tell the truth: half-truths , omissions and deliberate ambiguities can be just as effective as crude lies if the mission is to mislead.

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1. Governments and companies tell half-truths.

2. One that babbles: a Babbler of half-truths

3. The half-truths and subtle deceptions will not diminish.

4. They often resort to distortions, half-truths, and outright falsehoods.

5. It does not employ half-truths in order to appear righteous.

6. His evidence was a blend of smears, half truths and downright lies.

7. Those who do not will remain awash in half-truths, outright deceptions and fraud.

8. His reputation, he said, had been unfairly sullied by allegations, half-truths and innuendos.

9. 12 Yes, apostates publish literature that resorts to distortions, half-truths, and outright falsehood.

10. But this resolution contains inaccuracies, distortions, lies and half-truths and so cannot be accepted.

11. A situation of perplexity or confusion; a tangle: a Bewilderment of lies and half-truths.

12. For example, Bibliolaters failed to see that the Book of Job was a dialogue and treated the "insufferable half-truths" of Job's comforters as of equal value with Job's own "pathetic appeals and close and powerful reasoning" (Coleridge 54).

13. ‘There was a wide Assortment of delightful buns and cakes, and a great range of healthy fruit juices.’ ‘This important passage contains at least one blatant lie and a wide Assortment of half truths.’ ‘There was an Assortment of free drinks on offer and a couple of plates of biscuits.’

14. ‘There was a wide Assortment of delightful buns and cakes, and a great range of healthy fruit juices.’ ‘This important passage contains at least one blatant lie and a wide Assortment of half truths.’ ‘There was an Assortment of free drinks on offer and a couple of plates of biscuits.’