evasion
equivocation
lie
prevarication
nugget of truth
falsity
to tell the truth
veracity
untruism
inaccuracy
noncontradiction
nontruth
I can tell you
inveracity
misrepresentation
deceit
deception
falsehood
should
dialetheia
factly
mistruth
unverity
nonfact
half-truth
proposition
affirmative
bullshit
misconnote
contradiction
contradiction in terms
tell the truth
suppressio veri
untrueness
call a spade a shovel
Creticism
tell you the truth
honest to goodness
honest to God
truthless
speciousness
unveracious
God's truth
tall story
non-denial denial
untruth
meretriciousness
truth
truthness
true statement
contradict
load of shit
argumentum ad consequentiam
untruthful
pile of crap
unfact
pile of shit
load of bull
load of crap
self-contradiction
distortion
falsification
affirmation
avouchment
lead astray
misassert
neck
avowal
mendacity
fabrication
chin
truehood
verisimilarly
unsubstantiate
inverity
where's the lie
truth bomb
porky pie
horse hockey
claim
cross one's heart
inference
post-factual
nonstatement
walloper
whopper
proverb
declarative
terminological inexactitude
denial

English words for 'a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth'

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