How To Use Half-truth In A Sentence
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But it's awash with half-truths and disingenuity.
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They have been ripe for the pickings of a media that for the past two decades has successfully parlayed gossip, innuendo, rumor, half-truths and outright lies into a hugely profitable growth industry.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Dumping on The Obamas
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Three distinguished professors send this memo - Five Half-truths of Business - as a wake-up call.
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I omitted telling the whole truth and this was to protect Sheila, but I have found that one half-truth left hanging mutates.
GYPSY MASALA
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No sooner had this farrago of half-truths and complete fiction been discredited then along came the second myth.
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Where other British citizens saw gross lies, exaggerations, and frustrating half-truths, Linehan saw a "golden opportunityto kickstart a campaign to redress the balance a little bit.
Allison Kilkenny: British Defend Their Healthcare System
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In fact, we should get rid of the normal understanding/reasonable person test in all contexts, and permit half-truth frauds on consumers and voters everywhere!
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Exonerated” Former Death Row Inmate Reconvicted
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The truth, a half-truth, or a lie could be employed, whichever served best in the circumstances.
O: A Presidential Novel
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Similar to gossip, but usually more based on some factual element or half-truth. Rumor mongering ; Spreading a rumor with malicious intent.
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What we have got from both camps is a farrago of half-truths and unproven assertions that are repeated even when shown to be blatantly unfounded.
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In this season, whenever Antonina crossed the park on her way to the trolley stop, church or market, she walked through corridors thickly scented by linden flowers and abuzz with half-truths -- in local slang, lipa also meant white lies.
‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’
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I think it's a series of half-truths, exaggerations, reassurances that weren't the case, to get us into conflict by the spring, and I think that commitment had been made by the previous summer.
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Your crusade to unseat them by peddling exaggerations and half-truths lowers you to their level.
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If anyone is misleading the American public, it is you for presenting a series of half-truths as the whole truth.
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In reality, this means it combines actual events, half-truths and outright fiction.
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The probe had to look into a plethora of truths, half-truths, hearsay, gossip and rumours, the minister said.
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They spin stories based off of half-truths and cater to spiteful impulses.
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With so many fibs and half-truths floating around, it was no wonder that women had trouble making up their minds.
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The newspaper reports are a mixture of gossip, lies and half-truths.
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Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them.
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The problem is that they have to deal with racing drivers on a regular basis, and if there's one thing you don't want if you have any intention of maintaining your mental stability, it's listening to the humgudgeon, half-truths, taradiddles, quarter-truths, fiddlesticks and non-truths of even one racing driver, never mind a gridful of the blighters.
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As Huxley would explain, these sources exchange arguments founded "upon the best available evidence fully and honestly set forth" for strings of half-truths, catch phrases, and scapegoats that "cunningly" associate "the lowest passions with the highest ideals.
Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda
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I ask only because we seem today to be much more savvy about being in Important Times, collectively aware that we're passing through history – a tsunami, exploding aircraft, malign old tyrannies being shucked like peas, an old man's important half-truths being pointlessly interrupted by a skidmark – and, being aware that this is living-dramatic, wanting to refract it instantly as drama.
Rewind TV: The Hour; The Apprentice; Show Me the Funny; Imagine; Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet; Twenty Twelve – review
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She has woven a web of lies, truths and half-truths.
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He said: ‘It just adds to the general impression that what we have been treated to is a farrago of half-truths, assertions and over-the-top spin.’
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So why is it that our stories are riddled with half-truths and part-truths and secrets and lies?
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So they've swallowed whole a bunch of half-truths and falsehoods and, quite literally, built a federal case out of it.
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And, by the way, a half-truth counts as a lie. joe m
New DNC campaign targets GOP health care critics
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WASHINGTON — A litany of half-truths, withholding crucial video, blocking media access to the site and a failure to share timely and complete information about efforts to contain the largest oil spill in U.S. history have created the widespread impression that BP is withholding information about the April 20 oilrig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, if not misleading the public and the government.
Oil Spill Taking Toll On BP's, Government's Credibility
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So he may be forced to tell misleading half-truths about ‘Barbara's’ performance.
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Just as equating yoga with only asana is a half-truth more like a 1/8th-truth, so too is ignoring the spiritual, metaphysical Truths upon which yoga rests.
Suhag A. Shukla, Esq.: Yoga Won't Wreck Your Body But May Make You More Hindu
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It's a struggle between the truth, the half-truth, and the downright lie; between the likely, through the merely possible, to the very far-fetched indeed.
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I am a stickler for objectivity in journalism, but I had started out with the impression that I would be dealing with a world of half-truths, stretched laws and dodgy dealings.
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But the whole thing was such a cynical mix of half-truths, untruths and twisted logic that it ended up besting me.
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As we have come to suspect, it is partisan to the point of being littered with falsehoods, half-truths and unfair coloring of the events.
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It was a farrago of non-sequitur and half-truth, attacking the questioners for things they had neither said nor thought.
THE SCAR
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Stagliano: It seems like a half-truth when people say I don't have any regrets.
Bachelor Pad Winner Michael Calls Holly's Engagement Reveal Terrible
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The whole issue continues to be clouded by half-truths and rumour, and that is only likely to get worse.
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Of course, on the other hand, he was a man of many half-truths and blatant untruths and she risked her life for his cause on a regular basis.
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Stone knew that was a half-truth, but he had to win this negotiation now, if he was going to protect Vance.
SWIMMING TO CATALINA
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Sure it might be about identity as ‘an invention based on myths and half-truths’, but is also typical of most video art - boring.
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The next episode of the never-ending cycle is written into the animating spirit of each person downed and dead by want of cleaner, clearer Light … those who want no dark half-truths hidden in linted pockets inside Saville Row suits, no half-lies shined up to look like the truth, no rotten tooth painted over with gold paint, and no falsehoods paid with bags of gold to be written into death-dealing laws.
The Moderate Voice
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Can't we at least, somewhere in the midst of deception, half-truths and outright lies, catch an honest break?
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With an eye ever open for the absurdity of her vocation, Mr. Gottlieb steers us through a thicket of fictions and half-truths about Sarah, many of them perpetrated by the "relentless fabulist" herself.
Actress, Seductress
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Again, more spin and half-truth from the Party of Satan - the NeoCons.
Conservative: Dems looking 'schizophrenic' on reform
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For Mr. Schutze, the campaign to build a high-speed toll road between the Trinity River levees is premised on half-truths, outright lies and obscured facts.
Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » The DMN’s Hatchet Job On Jim Schutze Made Me So Crazy I Stayed Up Til 4 AM Typing This — ON VACATION!
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His reputation, he said, had been unfairly sullied by allegations, half-truths and innuendos.
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The probe had to look into a plethora of truths, half-truths, hearsay, gossip and rumours, the minister said.
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John Boehner promised one last week, but we heard nothing more than the same Democratic slams, half-truths and mendacities that are his stock-and-trade.
Brian Ross: Manufacturing A Phony Job Crisis
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The families and friends of those killed have responded bitterly to the litany of obfuscations and half-truths.
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Fiction, while sometimes manipulative, is not a deception unless it is portrayed as the whole truth; not to be confused with half-truths.
Archive 2007-03-01
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How could it have avoided becoming just another part of the whole elaborate web of half-truths, misinformation and spin?
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How can anyone accept blatant half-truths, lies and distortion of history?
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It was a farrago of non-sequitur and half-truth, attacking the questioners for things they had neither said nor thought.
THE SCAR
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They preach to their minions’ half-truths, falsities, and destructive examples that inflate egos, separate people of differing beliefs and life-styles, and they do so with a high and mighty commanding declaration that their mutterings are the truths that their congregation was heretofore denied.
...And God Said
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What is of note from some of these is the exaggeration which leads to half-truth or lies that is being communicated.
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For their credulity, they are showered with lies, exaggerations and half-truths, all of which find a sizable percentage of proponents among the voters.
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How could it have avoided becoming just another part of the whole elaborate web of half-truths, misinformation and spin?
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His own books and memoirs are a farrago of half-truth and out-right invention.
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McCarthy's blend of half-truths and lies ruined many careers in government and the professions.
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From the beginning the Press has conspired in perpetuating what the sadly departed and sorely missed George Carlin called the American Okee-doke, the pretty lies and comforting half-truths that our corporate overseers use to keep us in line by getting us to accept the illusion that all is well in this great Republic of ours, feeding us, as Carlin says in his last concert for HBO, "just enough bullshit to hold things together.
Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and the American Okee-doke
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You're contemplating telling Tamara this half-truth tonight.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The point of the near-constant dispensation of lies, half-truths and irrelevancies is to create an atmosphere in which it becomes almost impossible to distinguish honesty from deception, fact from fantasy.
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Now on the one hand, as we have seen, every brick making up this massive conceptual edifice is a friable mixture of untruth, half-truth, hypothesis or assertion.
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
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It was a farrago of non-sequitur and half-truth, attacking the questioners for things they had neither said nor thought.
THE SCAR
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Stand-alone mothers have a habit of dominating their histories with dramatic inventions and embarrassing half-truths, so the truth was cloudy.
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As she cuts through layers of truths and half-truths, the author reveals a cycle of pain and longing that spans three generations of women.
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Surely it is the politicians that have brought politics into disrepute with their spin culture, deceit, half-truths and underhand dealings?
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The inescapable presence of doubt is a constant reminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth.
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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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But the whole thing was such a cynical mix of half-truths, untruths and twisted logic that it ended up besting me.
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Here's a primer on the issues that will help sort through the truths, half-truths, and exaggerations in the coming debate.
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One of the reasons I am writing this book," she avers, "is that I came to feel, especially as I saw the real, not-for-prime-time struggles of much older friends, that I was presenting a half-truth that amounted to a lie.
Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive
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The salesmen have been telling producers many half-truths and some outright deceptions.
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“Why would one ever choose to tell the whole truth when a half-truth is so much more creative?”
Candy bars, selling cars and satan
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When they said they wanted to keep me on, it was a half-truth: we have projects that are underperforming, staff that are overstretched and losing someone who's bringing in money wouldn't be a good thing right now.
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Can't wait to see these fear mongering, half-truth ads on TV.
Club for Growth targets Democrats over health care
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Its 50 pages are filled with so many assertions, half-truths and qualifications as to render it worthless.
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This is a shadowy world of rumour, double-dealing and half-truths.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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The whole party, however, and a more amiable never existed, were scared and disgusted into this by the catachrestic language and skeleton half-truths of the systematic divines of the Synod of Dort on the one hand, and by the sickly broodings of the Pietists and Solomon's-Song preachers on the other.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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But the whole thing was such a cynical mix of half-truths, untruths and twisted logic that it ended up besting me.
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If this does not happen, then the values and truths a writer seeks to convey remain half-truths and half lies.
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Sadly, some of these myths have become so entrenched that we sometimes forget they are merely half-truths or untruths which bear little resemblance to reality.
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This doesn't include any distortions, half-truths, or exaggerations, or any lies told by senior figures in the administration.
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Ehrlich accused O'Malley of using a half-truth to attack the former administration's record.
First Click, MarylandThe facts behind the debate's DNA claims
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Your crusade to unseat them by peddling exaggerations and half-truths lowers you to their level.
