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

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

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