half-truths

plural of half-truth

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of half-truths In a world where images are so numerous and so difficult to understand, truth itself can be in danger, threatened by false interpretations and distorted, misleading half-truths. Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025 The intrigue in The Martians comes from its author’s patient demonstration of how half-truths and subjective observations can snowball into consensus. David Kamp, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025 As usual, the fake posts are often mixed with half-truths. John Brandon, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for half-truths
Noun
  • Our family has been ruined by Denise's lies of promising to end a year-long affair.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their empires cracked, their shadows receded, and their names faded into cautionary tales.
    John Hope Bryant, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The mysterious spirit animal messengers that Ji-noo sends, a tiger and a magpie who represent the nobles and commoners of many Korean folk tales, needed to be otherworldly without being fully demonic.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Other big stories ➤ The median rent on a one-bedroom Phoenix-area apartment is falling after the region led the nation in price increases in 2021.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Randy Tucker Many of you have read the name PLK Communities in my stories about the team of developers behind the controversial Hyde Park Square redevelopment plan.
    Randy Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • A number of fans in the background are moving with a uniform motion, and some of the faces have noticeable distortions.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Imports fell more than analysts expected, in a reversal of a surge in February and March; those distortions pushed down GDP at the start of the year, though the economy is expected to grow more in the second quarter.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 7 Aug. 2025

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“Half-truths.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/half-truths. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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