"coloring the truth" - my words, not Rashi's or Abraham's, I could have used different phrases but - I thought this was a list about semantics in Hebrew, not English.
The point being, that for whatever reasons Avraham thought he needed to "lie" (which is not the point of this discussion, but we can cite that, too...commentaries explain that in verse 2) - he did his best to remain as close to the truth as possible.
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