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Bend the truth

verb

To change or leave out certain facts of a story or situation, generally in order to elicit a specific response in the audience.

  • In relating the story to Julie, he decided to bend the truth just enough to make her think he had really been in danger.

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They tended only to bend the truth, not break it.

But it's also a test of how far politicians can bend the truth.

One result of that decade was a detailed knowledge of the way photographs can both serve and bend the truth.

Ferrante has openly said she would be willing to bend the truth if asked to talk about her life.

To bend the truth, an artist needs to give an audience some signal that they might be doing so.

But he has compounded his problems through his willingness to bend the truth and his readiness to blame civil servants for his troubles.

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Now Al Gore is bending the truth again.

She has willfully bent the truth like a hurricane bends a sapling.

He went through my bill of indictment, calmly disputing that he had bent the truth.

It was in these trials that he started bending the truth about evidence.

Mr. Romney bends the truth so frequently it's difficult to keep track (though some try).

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