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A statement presented as fact, designed to mislead for political purposes, which can neither be proved to be true, nor false.
These are bogative statements:

"We can't afford to let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud."

"Social Security will be bankrupt, long before you will ever see a dime...you can get a better return on your money, by investing in the stock market."

"Marijuana is dangerous precisely because it is so benign...it's a gateway drug."

"Pepper spray is essentially a food product."
Bogative by Abu al-Amok November 22, 2011
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Begative 

A bee fashionably dressed up as Wednesday Adams.
person 1: is that Wednesday Adams?
person 2: no it’s just a begative
Begative by begative101 May 9, 2020

Begative 

When someone receives a negative covid test after eating brisket at chipotle for 2 straight weeks
Alberto came back with a begative COVID test and high blood pressure
Begative by OpenSi December 23, 2021

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026