Creative Truthing

When you present the truth in a very unflattering way as a means to deter another person's romantic interest in you. This technique is most useful in online dating.

I was grossly unimpressed when I met Joe for a coffee date. I wasn't lying when I told him that I wanted to get married, have two kids and be a stay at home mom. I was just creative truthing.

by Lady Die October 25, 2010

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Dolf Truth

Truths that only hold water in a fictional world, called Dolfopulous.

Yo don't be telling more yo damn Dolf Truths, again! I don't wanna be jumping of no bridge... again.

by Archamedis July 3, 2006

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Statistical facts or other scholarly information that makes people uncomfortable when they read it or hear it. Freakonomics Truth often causes great consternation and denial in the listener or reader who is so shocked by what they have just discovered, that they try to avoid learning about similar information in the future.

Mass abortion among unmarried, low income women after the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 led to a significant reduction in violent crime in the United States in the 1990s and 2000s, because many of the children who would have become violent criminals were never born. Many devoutly religious people don't like to hear 'Freakonomics Truth' because it flies in the face of everything they have been brought up to believe. 'Freakonomics Truth' reminds us of how dark and ugly life often is.

by Frank Sandpaper April 26, 2013

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truth sleuthing

Verb--checking a variety of reliable sources before drawing a conclusion about a topic, especially when faced with corporate or political propaganda

Jon Stewart is truth sleuthing when he examines conservative and liberal media coverage of a particular event, although his own coverage tends to lean to the left.

by Professor Independence July 27, 2014

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