The truth is complicated

I met a girl once. We were chatting, and she asked me if I was gay. I said no. A few weeks later, she just so happened to see me kissing my girlfriend, and claimed I lied to her. Well, technically I didn't. You see, I'm bisexual. But does that mean I told her the truth? What you say to people isn't the technicality, it's the implication. When I say "I'm not gay", that doesn't mean I'm not gay, it means I'm straight.

So I didn't lie to her, not really, but I didn't tell the truth either. It was a misdirection. Not an intentional one, but it was. You can convince people of all sorts of things without ever lying to them.