economical with the truth

Senso (Inglese)

Not telling the whole truth, especially in order to present a false image of a situation; untruthful; lying. Often used with sarcasm or satire.

Concetti

bugiardo

sinonimi

dishonest

lying

truthless

untruthful

mistruthful

Traduzioni

wahrheitswidrig

lügnerisch

αναληθής

malhonnête

mendax

mentiroso

embustero

sahte

yalan

yalancı

Etimologia (Inglese)

Believed to be from a quotation by the British-Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke (1729–1797): “Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.”