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单词 half-truth
释义 half-truth
A proposition or statement which is or conveys only one half or a part of the truth.
1658Manton Exp. Jude 4 Half-truth hath filled the world with looseness.1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1875) I. 398 The noisy conflict of half-truths.1864J. H. Newman Apol. App. 91 A half-truth is often a falsehood.
b. attrib. or Comb.
1832Coleridge Lett. (1895) 757 Self-designated Tories, and of course half-truthmen.
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