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

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

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