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half-truths
noun as in white lie
noun as in generality
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Inhofe is not just a climate-change denier; he is a warrior for corporate-funded half-truths and outright lies.
“Putin never directly lies, he just tells half truths and his answer was a half truth,” he said.
King: We must expunge from our society the myths and half-truths that engender such groundless fears as these.
Cohen and Kelly contend that Enemies Within is filled with errors and “half truths.”
He says he supports a Palestinian state but when he speaks on the Middle East he generally recites the standard AIPAC half-truths.
He had quietly read the native's mind while the half-truths and lies had fallen from his forked tongue.
Such forced sentences are only half truths, or they are a bit of cheap repartee.
She is all things to all men; she has whole truths, half truths, and quarter truths, if not still smaller fractions.
But I am going to write them, Diana, for the time has come when we must face the big truths, and let the half-truths go.
He saw the spiritual and eternal element which was almost lost in the chaos of half truths and errors.
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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to half-truths, such as: exaggeration, half-truth, harmless untruth, little white lie, mental dishonesty, and near truth.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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