Meaning of bend the truth | Babel Free

Definitions

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

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

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

“In his warped attempt to bend the truth completely out of shape, ....”

“In a Feb. 5 column, Dottie Lamm seemed quite happy to bend the truth in all directions”

“KGB had always been on the lookout for hard facts, but then reported those facts to people besotted with a dream, who then bent the truth in the service of that dream. When the truth had finally broken through, the dream had suddenly evaporated like a cloud of steam in a high wind, and reality had poured in like the flood following the breakup of an icebound river in springtime.”

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