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DEFINITION: n A lie told by a politician which is not really a lie, because in their heart of hearts, they are pretending it is true. v. To believe you are telling the truth even though you know it's really not.
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Platformidabull
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: plat/for/mida/bull
Sentence:
Etymology: platform + formidable + bull
Veritease
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: VEHR-ih-teez
Sentence: The audience sought verity from the muckraked Congresswoman, but she merely placated them with veritease.
Etymology: veri[ty] + tease; a "truth" that is really only teasing.
Prommiss
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: prom-miss
Sentence: I believe my own prommisses, don't you?
Etymology: prom+miss
Polibrication
Created by: ozzymars
Pronunciation: pah-lib-bra-cay-shun
Sentence: His polibrications were the cause of him losing the election.
Etymology: politics+fabrication
Diplolegory
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: dip-lo-ligri
Sentence: Common people take every word true which springs out of the political leader but they dont understand that its just a diplolegory and nothing.
Etymology: Diplomat = one who is skilled in dealing public or exterior matters. Allegory means the statement which means differently than what it seems on the suface.
Politlie
Created by: aj3131
Pronunciation: Pol-lit-lie
Sentence: Bill Clinton told a Politlie when he uttered the infamous phrase "I did not have sex with that woman."
Etymology: Polit(ician) + Lie
Defibelation
Created by: bedens
Pronunciation: Dee-FIB-uh-lay-shun
Sentence: 1. (n.) "I voted with the best interest of my constituents in mind", he said with defibelation. 2. (v.) Johnny J. Politician defibilated when stating his position on health care reform.
Etymology: De (to remove) - fib (an untruth) - elation (with joy or happiness). Also incorporates part of "defibrillation", which is the act of restoring the heart to its normal rhythm.
Informadeuption
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: infərmādəpshən
Sentence: The spokes-person came to the point that he started to believe his own informadeuption.
Etymology: information (facts provided or learned about something or someone) + made-up (invented; not true)
Inventruth
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: in-ven-trooth
Sentence: The candidate is famous for his use of inventruth. He is so good at it that his own mother is beginning to doubt her memory of her son's early life.
Etymology: invent (to produce or create with the imagination) + truth (conformity with fact or reality)
Bullucination
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /bool-loo-suh-NEY-shun/
Sentence: Senator Sam Slicker had started out as an automobile salesman, and he knew how to lie with conviction. His bullucinations were so convincing, he would often conveniently forget that he was lying in the first place.
Etymology: Bull - foolish, deceitful, or boastful language (from Old English, bula "a steer") + Hallucination - a false notion, belief, or impression; delusion (from Latin, hallucinatus "wandering dream")
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COMMENTS:
nice! - galwaywegian, 2008-06-12: 14:31:00
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