if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull
grain of truth
economical with the truth
red herring
stretch the truth
circle
alternative pleading
singing
telling
tattle
pleading in the alternative
scotch
rebut
suggestion
to one's knowledge
likely story
shuck and jive
rumor campaign
lawyer
deny
apodictic
gotcha
talk is cheap
whisper campaign
sell someone out
snow
a posteriori
dirty laundry
probative
straw man
leap
oversimplify
factiness
scream loudest
misproof
shit-stirrer
narration
nugget of truth
untruthful
probatory
argufy
big mouth
factify
throw dirt enough, and some will stick
says you
prebunking
rumor
relieve
disprobative
coonshit
outlie
unbosom
ammunition
win around
quibble
picayune
rumint
denigrating
slanderous
libellous
calumniatory
calumnious
prebunk
reinforcement
defamatory
scaremongery
libelous
reenforcement
denigratory
simplistic
denigrative
leg-pulling
convince
call a spade a shovel
leg-pull
black swan fallacy
oversimplification
expose
mealymouthed
no smoke without fire
logical positivist
debunk
loosen someone's tongue
hallucinate
whataboutery
neither … nor
mealy-mouthed
argumentum ad lapidem
counterknowledge
misrepresentation
disinformational
disconfirmation
line
put one's cards on the table
poke borack
kick up a fuss
convincing
falsification