English Explanatory Dictionary

terminological inexactitude

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A lie; falsehood.

Word forms

terminological inexactitude terminological inexactitudes

Etymology

Coined by Winston Churchill campaigning in the 1906 election, and repeated by him in the parliament, : The conditions of the Transvaal ordinance ... cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. — in the parliament 22 February 1906 (quoted in Nigel Rees, Sayings of the Century, 1984) This first usage has only the literal sense of inaccurate terminology, but it was almost immediately taken up as a euphemism meaning an outright lie.

Synonyms

alternative fact anti-fact invention bluff bollocks bullshit canard cap chin clanker contradiction cram disinformation fabrication falsehood falsification fib flam goof hoax hummer inveracity inverity jive lie load of bull load of crap load of shit mendacity misinformation mistruth nonsense nontruth pile of crap pile of shit pork pie porker porky prevarication red flag rubbish story swack-up tall tale terminological inexactitude untruism untruth whopper wisker yanker yed falsedom falsity falseness leasing misstatement

Related words

alternative fact
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