What is "bent the truth"

Usage examples of "bent the truth".

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.

He didn't like the way she kept information from him, and bent the truth to serve her needs, but it had not been out of malevolence.

I bent the truth a little and said you had summoned me from the southwhich, in a sense, you did.

He handed the vessel to his father and sent a silent prayer for God to forgive the way he had just bent the truth.

They would suspect that Entreri had bent the truth to suit his own needs, but the assassin knew that he hadn't given them anything overt enough for them to act upon-at least, not without raising the ire of Jarlaxle.

They would suspect that Entreri had bent the truth to suit his own needs, but the assassin knew that he hadn’.

But they knew what we were looking for, and what it would take to satisfy us, and so perhaps they bent the truth a little.