Half truth

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a statement only partially true, or which gives only a part of the truth.

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babbler bewilderment deceit deception half half-truth halfpenny interlace interlaced Interlacement interlacing misrepresentation myth			Once upon a time Angel had been so unlucky as to say to his father, in a moment of irritation, that it might have resulted far better for mankind if Greece had been the source of the religion of modern civilization, and not Palestine; and his father's grief was of that blank description which could not realize that there might lurk a thousandth part of a truth, much less a half truth or a whole truth, in such a proposition. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context This man seemed to me to lean over the cornice, and timidly whisper his half truth to the rude occupants who really knew it better than he. Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context			half nelson half note half page Half pay half pound Half price half relief half rest half rhyme Half round half seas over half shell Half shift half sister half snipe half sole half step half term half thickness Half tide Half time Half tint half title Half tone half track Half truth half volley Half year half-a-crown half-a-dollar half-and-half half-and-half dressing half-arsed half-asleep half-assed half-awake half-baked half-ball half-binding half-birthday half-blind half-blood half-blooded half-blue half-board half-boot half-bottle half-bound Half-breadth plan half-bred half-breed			Half suit Half sword half tap half term half term half the battle Half The Fight half the time Half the truth is often a whole lie Half the world knows not how the other half lives half thickness half thickness Half tide Half tide half timber Half timbered Half time Half time Half tint half title Half tone Half tone Half tone Half Toning Half Toning Half Toning half track half track Half Truck Load half truss Half truth Half Two half under Half value layer Half value layer half vision half vision half vision half vision half vision half volley half volley Half Wave Optical Thickness Half wave plate Half Wave/Full Wave Half way covenant Half Way House Half Way There Half Width At Half-Maximum Half Width at Zero Intensity Half year Half year Half Year Convention Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update Half Yearly Half Zero half-a-crown half-a-dollar Half-adder half-adjust half-and-half

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