mistruth
mistruth by anonymous coward November 6, 2004
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Mistruth
Verb
1. To say something that to the speaker is objectively true, but in a tactless or unacceptable manner.
Origin: Writer Kevin Kramer for TV program Be Cool, Scooby Doo S2E9, "Vote Velma." Used by characters Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley to walk back a tactless statement by candidate Velma.
1. To say something that to the speaker is objectively true, but in a tactless or unacceptable manner.
Origin: Writer Kevin Kramer for TV program Be Cool, Scooby Doo S2E9, "Vote Velma." Used by characters Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley to walk back a tactless statement by candidate Velma.
Andrew Cuomo mistruthed when he said "America was never that great." He later explained that the country has never achieved "full greatness" because of inequality.
Mistruth by VelmaDinkley August 17, 2018
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A Booger In The Nose Of Progress
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006
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fogey
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!
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)