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