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Definition of Half-truth
1. Noun. A partially true statement intended to deceive or mislead.
Definition of Half-truth
1. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-truth
Literary usage of Half-truth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"half-truth The words that trembled on your lips Were uttered not—I know it well;
The tears that would your eyes eclipse Were checked and smothered, ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... in an oft-quoted passage, adds that "he considered them as the true patrons
of literature,"—only a half-truth, after all, for they can claim, ..."
3. The Next Great Awakening by Josiah Strong (1902)
"Each contains a half truth, and the two together make up the rounded whole of
will through law. ... half truth ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1870)
"It is admitted that we familiarly use such phrases as a half-assent, ' but a
half-assent is not a kind ' of assent any more than a half-truth is a kind of ..."
5. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts by Irving Babbitt (1910)
"And Wordsworth of course glimpses here an important half-truth, but a half-truth
at least as dangerous in itself as the neo- classic half-truth about the ..."
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