Word of the Day: Terminologicalinexactitude

[kburra]

Terminologicalinexactitude.
A humorous euphemism for a lie, first used by Winston Churchill in a Commons speech in 1906.

 

[RadishRose]

Terminologicalinexactitude.
A humorous euphemism for a lie, first used by Winston Churchill in a Commons speech in 1906.

It's so over the top it's funny!
It would be a terminologicalinexactitude if I claimed to be 7 feet tall!

 

[Aunt Marg]

Well... it's one thing to claim that you are 7' tall, but it's a whole other thing when you actually ARE 7' tall like me!

Is the above terminologicalinexactitude, or is it terminologicalinexactitude?

I'll let you be the judge.

 

[debodun]

It would not be terminologicalinexactitude to say that I have more knickknacks that I can handle.

 

[Aunt Marg]

It would not be terminologicalinexactitude to say that I have more knickknacks that I can handle.

You know, Deb, you had me hook, line and sinker, right up to your mention of, "you have more knickknacks that you can handle", and then I knew you were pulling my leg! LOL!

 

[Pappy]

When I came home real late one night, I told my wife a terminologicalinexacttitude.

 

[Aunt Marg]

When I came home real late one night, I told my wife a terminologicalinexacttitude.

Did she make you sleep on the couch?

 

[Pappy]

Did she make you sleep on the couch?

No, I spent most of the night hugging the porcelain bowl....

 

[Ruthanne]

I'd be telling a terminologicalinexacttitude if I said I was an exceptionally skinny woman!

 

[Keesha]

No, I spent most of the night hugging the porcelain bowl....

Well that’s what you get for terminologicalinexactituding! lol

 

[Ruthanne]

In all my life I have never ever ever told a terminologicalinexactitude. And if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you

 

[peramangkelder]

'Would I Terminologicalinexactitude To You' doesn't have quite the same ring to it as
'Would I Lie To You' by The Eurythmics

 

[Sliverfox]

My brother in law can spin the best terminologicalinexactitude while telling tales.
So good that a used car salesman came to in-laws door to get paid for that car brother in law said he's buy.
Mother in law had to explain the her son was mentally challgened.

 

[pepe]

When I was a kid I used to believe Santa was real but it was all a terminologicalinexactitude.

 

[DailyArtsyCrafter]

It is a terminologicalinexactitude that sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can never hurt us.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Technically, terminologicalinexactitude isn't one word, it's two: terminological inexactitude. Neither are in the MW Dictionary. So sorry. I hadta.

 

[OldFeller]

What's the point of knowing a word you could never use in Scrabble?

 

[jujube]

I'm very simple, I can just lie without using big words. In fact, I can tell a LOT more lies if I don't use big words.

 

[horseless carriage]

What's the point of knowing a word you could never use in Scrabble?

So that you can show off. But I do like to use an unfamiliar word when I write to people who work in local authorities like the town hall. Authentic or true are words that I could use but I know that verisimilitude will perplex them unless they Google it.