HALF-TRUTH: Meaning and related words

We found 20 dictionaries that define the word half-truth:

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half-truth: Merriam-Webster
half-truth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
half-truth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
half-truth, half-truth: Collins English Dictionary
half-truth: Vocabulary.com
half-truth: Wordnik
half-truth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
half-truth: Wiktionary
half-truth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
half-truth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
half-truth: Infoplease Dictionary
half-truth: Dictionary.com
half-truth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Half-truth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
half-truth: Rhymezone
half-truth: FreeDictionary.org
half-truth: Mnemonic Dictionary
half-truth: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun: A deceptive statement, especially one that is only partly true, is incomplete, misrepresents reality by telling part of the truth, or alters the time sequence of truths.

Opposite:

truth, whole truth, complete truth, full truth

Types:

equivocation, omission, cherry picking, false attribution, false authority, more...

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