| 词汇 | half-truth |
| 释义 | half-truth noun[ C ] uk /ˈhɑːf.truːθ/ us /ˈhæf.truːθ/ a statement that is intended to deceive by being only partly true半真半假的话，真伪混杂的陈述 Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of liesidiom artifice bad faith black is whiteidiom cakeism falsehood falsification feed someone a lineidiom fib fiction lie mythologize perjure perjury polygraph someone can talk!idiom stretch the truthidiom weasel words white lie whopper half-truth | American Dictionaryhalf-truth noun[ C ] us/ˈhæfˈtruθ/ a statement that is intended to deceive someone by telling only part of the truth Examples of half-truthhalf-truth The assertion that the sources are lacking to tell the history of ' common people ' is a half-truth at best (p. xix). In the scientists' case, hedges turn up often in contexts of popularization, where the author knows that the audience only needs the 'half-truth'. This is an important half-truth. I should not like to reconsider my answer—namely, that while there is an independent sector of education the commitment to selection is only a half-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I want us to agree that this is only a half-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have always thought that to be a half-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that that is only a half-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That was a half-truth, and a half-truth is sometimes the greatest untruth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not have to fight a lie but a half-truth. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English That is one of those statements which is all the more false because it is a half-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a truth, but only a half-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think the statement that there were no complaints was definitely a half-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was, in fact, half a truth, and we all know what a half-truth can be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been urged from the other side that these schemes are non-compulsory, but, surely, that is only a half-truth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One judgment included the statement that "the shrewd use of exaggeration, innuendo, ambiguity and half-truth is more efficacious from the advertiser's standpoint than factual assertions". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of half-truth These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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