Having the mental capacity to understand something that's painfully obvious to anybody else and/or has overwhelming and undeniable evidence, but deliberately ignoring it for any number of reasons. Compare willful ignorance.
Jean was presented with mountains of evidence that her husband was cheating on her, and more-or-less covered her ears and went "LALALALALA." I swear, she's engaging in selective obliviousness.
by Intelligence001 April 02, 2022
by bookswithboe March 25, 2022
"Cool" girl: Certified loverboy certified pedophiles! I LOVE KENDRICK LAMAR
Person: Why're you using Selective Lyricism"? Sing the whole song?
"Cool" girl: I don't know the whole song. I just like this part.
Person: All for clout.
Example 2:
Girl: THEY NOT LIKE US *3, *gibberish until the next "THEY NOT LIKE US"
Boy 1: Why isn't she singing the rest bro? She told she listens to KDot.
Boy 2: MAn she's using "Selective Lyricism" to fit in. Bet she can't decode this song.
Boy 1: Yeah i wonder if she knows that it's a Disstrack.
Girl: THEY NOT LIKE US!
Person: Why're you using Selective Lyricism"? Sing the whole song?
"Cool" girl: I don't know the whole song. I just like this part.
Person: All for clout.
Example 2:
Girl: THEY NOT LIKE US *3, *gibberish until the next "THEY NOT LIKE US"
Boy 1: Why isn't she singing the rest bro? She told she listens to KDot.
Boy 2: MAn she's using "Selective Lyricism" to fit in. Bet she can't decode this song.
Boy 1: Yeah i wonder if she knows that it's a Disstrack.
Girl: THEY NOT LIKE US!
by Hurt Cobain July 06, 2024
A tactic employed by certain politicians and groups that want to push their political agendas where that group or politician will say and or do certain things related to supporting or opposing specific issues in order to get certain types of reactions from particular populations, interest groups, and or, in some cases, other politicians. They usually do this to get more votes from different populations in society, or to get more financial and or political support from particular interest groups.
Natasha: I heard Senator Murkowski recently gave a speech on how they supported efforts of oil companies to begin drilling in certain parts of Alaska. I’m not sure why she would give a speech like that when she supports moving the country towards using renewable energy sources to prevent climate change, which negatively impacts many populations in her state. I could cost her their support down the line.
Ronald: She maybe employing selective political pressure in order to get more support from certain oil companies and specific Native American communities by appearing to support an issue they care about.
Ronald: She maybe employing selective political pressure in order to get more support from certain oil companies and specific Native American communities by appearing to support an issue they care about.
by Vanguard 1998 July 09, 2021
the moment when your eating frys from an average restuarant like mcdonalds or burger king and start getting near the bottom where the ones left are to crispy, or cold, so you choose the best ones to eat and throw the rest out
Guy 1- hey man hurry up and eat, we gotta go
Guy 2- man shut up and hold on, im doin a fry selection
Guy 2- man shut up and hold on, im doin a fry selection
by Smokey Legend December 23, 2007
by Ajw June 01, 2012
Lindsay the supervisor would order people she hated to do more work than everyone else (move the goalposts on them) and was quicker to try and get them fired if she hated them (a negative feeling towards them she would always deny having or say someone else felt that way if asked simply, plainly, and directly) whether they did their jobs as well as everyone else or not. She lived by the same kind of selective double standard she would always try and poke fun at others for having.
by The Original Agahnim November 13, 2021