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half-truth

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Synonyms and Antonyms of half-truth

a statement that is only partly true and that is intended to deceive people

I'm tired of all these half-truths—I want to know the real story.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of half-truth

distortion, exaggeration

fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper

ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity

defamation, libel, slander

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)

humbug, jive, nonsense

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of half-truth

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

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