单词 | terminological inexactitude |
释义 | > as lemmasterminological inexactitude terminological inexactitude n. inaccurate use of a particular term; an instance of this; (hence euphemistic) falsehood, lying; a lie. ΚΠ 1906 W. S. Churchill in Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. 152 555 A labour contract into which men enter voluntarily..cannot..be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude. 1940 C. Milburn Diary 19 July (1979) 49 I can't think..why he [sc. Hitler] does not choke himself with his ‘terminological inexactitudes’! 1976 A. Price War Game i. viii. 159 It all adds up to a little terminological inexactitude—he was lying through his goddamn teeth. 2015 Guardian (Nexis) 16 June His pretence that he'd been ‘over-interpreted’ was a new addition to the lexicon of terminological inexactitudes. < as lemmas |
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