To be economical with the truth literally means to avoid revealing too much of the truth. While the idea may have an approbatory sense of prudence or...
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Phrase (category Articles with short description)
other significance, such as "all rights reserved", "economical with the truth", "kick the bucket", and the like. It may be a euphemism, a saying or proverb...
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Psychology portal Alternative facts Casuistry Degree of truth Economical with the truth Fallacy of the single cause Fuzzy logic Jesuitical answer Jumping to...
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King's Scholar (category Scholarships in the United Kingdom)
Armstrong of Ilminster (Cabinet Secretary, popularised the phrase 'economical with the truth') Neal Ascherson (journalist) Alfred Ayer (philosopher)...
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Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster (category People associated with the University of Hull)
credited with bringing the phrase "economical with the truth" into popular usage, after he used it during the Spycatcher trial in 1986; his use of the phrase...
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Domain Name System Security Extensions (category All articles with bare URLs for citations)
Enumeration". Authenticated Denial of Existence in the DNS. doi:10.17487/RFC7129. RFC 7129. "Economical With The Truth: Making DNSSEC Answers Cheap". 2016-06-24...
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Boilersuit (category Articles with short description)
in the Rehabilitation Project Force by making them wear black boiler suits. Flight suit Speedsuit Onesie (jumpsuit) "Minister is economical with economic...
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Spycatcher (redirect from The Observer and The Guardian v United Kingdom)
the Soviet Union Julia Pirie – British Cold War spy Streisand effect – Increased awareness of something after suppression efforts Economical with the...
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the Midwife is a British period drama television series based on the best-selling memoirs of former nurse Jennifer Worth, who died shortly before the...
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S. nuclear umbrella or telling the public the truth; the decision makers chose to be "economical with the truth." The pacts revealed that nuclear weapons...
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Mary Reibey (category Articles with short description)
holdings in the city. Like many others, however, she was on occasions somewhat economical with the truth. In March 1820 she had returned to England with her daughters...
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Peter Wright (MI5 officer) (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
Wright's book was ″economical with the truth″. The subsequent appeals against the decision were definitively dismissed in 1988, the High Court of Australia...
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from discrimination by employers who might prefer them to be economical with the truth." The concept of an oath, rather than a more detailed code of conduct...
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Terminological inexactitude (category Politics of the United Kingdom)
being in favour of Brexit. Politics portal United Kingdom portal Economical with the truth Alternative facts Fake news Safire, William (2008). Safire's Political...
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West by Liz Truss review – economical with the truth about her own downfall". The Guardian. ISSN 0029-7712. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024...
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Commissioner Hayne questioned whether the CBA was "economical with the truth" in failing to tell customers the value of commissions it pays to mortgage...
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Desmond Connell (category Articles with short description)
secret from the archdiocese's parishioners until 2003. Connell was criticised in some quarters for being economical with the truth in his use of the concept...
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Unparliamentary language (category Articles with short description)
evaded the Speaker's rules are: Terminological inexactitude (lie) Being economical with the truth (lying by omission), since used on the floor of the house...
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The Awful Truth (1999–2000) is a satirical television show that was directed, written, and hosted by filmmaker Michael Moore, and funded by the British...
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Ikechukwu Obiorah (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
was selling. During the trial it was found that Folio has been "economical with the truth" and Obiorah was cleared and awarded damages. He filed a suit...
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Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in Ireland (redirect from Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland)
said the list was incomplete as complaints were made against at least 28 priests in the Archdiocese. He was criticised for being "economical with the truth"...
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to them all: this is a selection. And to be honest, I’ve been economical with the truth for months now. I keep finding books that I bought, didn’t read...
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Dud Dudley (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
and loss of his Invention of making of Iron with Pit-cole, Sea-cole, &c. Dudley was economical with the truth. Hasco furnace was built in 1626, but in November...
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Who's Who (UK) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
qualified some of the entrants as "a little economical with the truth". Writing in The Spectator about a radio documentary on the book they prepared...
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Holby City series 21 (category Episode list using the default LineColor)
features a crossover episode with sister show Casualty, an episode written by the show's co-creator Tony McHale and the show's 1000th episode, due to...
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Neobike (category Articles with Dutch-language sources (nl))
did not return all the tooling and .. made copies of the drawings, "Neobike vs Dahon: which company is being economical with the truth?". Bike Biz. 2002-05-17...
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Nadir Dinshaw (category Articles with hCards)
was not “economical with the truth”. Dinshaw was described by The Guardian as having ‘told the whole truth, but with such obvious concern for the friend...
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Mauro Ferrari (category Articles with short description)
statement, which at best is economical with the truth." The ERC stated that on 27 March 2020, following a no-confidence vote by the ERC's Scientific Council...
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Journal of My Life (category Articles with short description)
was also a teller of stories in the colloquial sense of the term, in that he was frequently 'economical with the truth'. To construct his memoirs he drew...
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Saudi Arabia (redirect from The Arabia of the Sauds)
Arabia admitted that the country's economy was facing a severe economical crisis for the first time in decades, because of the pandemic as well as declining...
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