0 a statement that is intended to deceive by being only partly true
1 a statement that is intended to deceive someone by telling only part of the 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.
I want us to agree that this is only a half-truth.
I have always thought that to be a half-truth.
I think that that is only a half-truth.
That was a half-truth, and a half-truth is sometimes the greatest untruth.
