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What does half-truth mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
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This is a half-truth, and like all half-truths it conceals a most dangerous fallacy.
The bare assertion that there are no problems in classifying dicalcium phosphate in the other Member States is a half-truth, for it does not say that dicalcium phosphate is not imported into those Member States from Tunisia.
Billy's denial, his hesitation, his half-truth all looked suspicious to him.
A half-truth is more deadly than an outright prevarication.
Such a functional dichotomy, even if only a half-truth, would eventually prove destructive of transatlantic relations.
It is a half-truth that notably impoverishes the life of the Conferences and their possibilities of performing.

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