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Definition: HALF TRUTH |
HALF TRUTH1. A statement only partially true, or which gives only a part of the truth. --Mrs. Browning. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Untruth | Irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation; (concealment). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This man seemed to me to lean over the cornice, and timidly whisper his half truth to the rude occupants who really knew it better than he. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "HALF TRUTH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjysmë e vërtetë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | полуистина. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | polopravda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μισή αλήθεια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | féligazság (half-truth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alfhay uthtray полуправда (half-truth). (various references) poluistina. (various references) verdad a medias. (various references) halvsanning. (various references) yarı gerçek, kısmen doğru ifade. (various references) напівправда. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"HALF TRUTH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: halftruth. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-h-h-l-r-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: artful, hatful. | |
-4 letters: fault, thurl, truth, ultra. | |
-5 letters: farl, fart, flat, frat, furl, haft, half, halt, harl, hart, hath, haul, haut, hula, hurl, hurt, lath, raft, rath, ruth, tahr, tart, taut, that, thru, tufa, tuft, turf. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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