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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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Clintonism
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Klin-ton-izem
Sentence: Although being caught red-handed as it were, Rupert De Soussa, the MP for Lustington South continued to deny his affair with the local vicars wife. His Clintonisms however were not fooling anyone, no matter how much he protested his innocence.
Etymology: Taken from the famous quote 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman.'
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COMMENTS:
great application - too bad he will 'go down' in history for this - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-12: 11:39:00
Good word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-13: 08:26:00
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Belieffib
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Bee-leef-fib
Sentence: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," said the president, who must have had a different definition of the term than the rest of the English-speaking world.
Etymology: Belief + fib
Truthbending
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: truth bending
Sentence: this guy believes himself, he is obviously truthbending
Etymology: truth en bending
Decepticongressional
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: dee-sep-tee-con-gresh-ah-nul
Sentence: he always found it impressed the voters if he took a decepticongressional approach to health care
Etymology: deceptive, congress, decepticons[from transformers...those guys were evil]
Politrick
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: politrick
Sentence: He politricked himself to believe in everything he said.
Etymology: politic + trick
Politifiction
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: POLITIcian+FICTION
Sentence: Seeing the candidates debate, we knew there was no better place to find politifiction.
Etymology: POLITIcian+FICTION
Heartfeltdootspeak
Created by: joshms
Pronunciation: heart-felt-doot-speak
Sentence: Everything that comes out of Blair's mouth is complete heartfeltdootspeak
Etymology:
Internalies
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: inturn/a/lize
Sentence: The politician lost all sense of fact and fiction because he had told so many internalies
Etymology: internalize + lies
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COMMENTS:
Definitely a Bentley from Porsche! Great word!! - Stevenson0, 2007-03-22: 09:03:00
how true - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-22: 16:06:00
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Flib
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: flib
Sentence: Man, Bush tells a lot of flibs, but you just know he's convinced they're not lies.
Etymology: fib + glib
Fauxquacious
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: fo KWAY shus
Sentence: Polly Tishan was impressively fauxquacious as she described her plan to help all the "needy and deserving citizens" of Texas by providing tax breaks to the poor and increasing taxes for the "greedy oil companies," whose campaign donations she would henceforth refuse.
Etymology: faux + loquacious
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COMMENTS:
Fauxdacious word - Nosila, 2009-10-08: 23:05:00
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