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