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If a person makes a truthful statement with the intention to deceive another person, then she is not lying, according to the untruthfulness condition.

If, for example, I am asked if I stole the money, and I reply in an ironic tone, "Yeah, right, of course I did," when I did steal the money, intending that I be believed to have not stolen the money, and if I am believed, then I have deceived using a truthful statement (it is unclear if such cases of "telling the truth falsely" (Frank 2009, 57) are to be considered as cases of paltering).

It is also possible to deceive an addressee about some matter other than the content of the statement made (e.g., making a truthful statement, but faking an accent).

On Tuesday, Walsh called that "a truthful statement".

So I made a truthful statement, and Dick understood it.

There are also those who, relying upon a Gricean account of conversational implicature (Grice 1989, 39)), argue that someone who makes a truthful statement but who thereby conversationally implicates a believed-false statement is lying (Meibauer 2011, 285; 2854a).

There are those who argue any statement made with an intention to deceive is a lie, including a truthful statement that is made with an intention to deceive (Barnes 1994, 11; Davidson 1980, 88).

Mr. Mohamed's lawyers want to tell the jury that their client cooperated fully with the authorities after his arrest, and demonstrated acceptance of responsibility by giving a "complete and truthful statement of his role in this offense," the documents show.

Trump had the lowest percentage of truthful statements of any recent presidential candidate, according to the fact-checking group PolitiFact.

The board's indecision seems to me a more truthful statement about the nature of such prizes than saying a certain book was No. 1.

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