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DEFINITION: n A lie told by a politician which is not really a lie, because in their heart of hearts, they are pretending it is true. v. To believe you are telling the truth even though you know it's really not.
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Truthism
Created by: iwasatripwire
Pronunciation: chrooth-izm
Sentence: Atheists think that when Christians talk about the existence of God, they're really just spewing truthisms.
Etymology: truth + ism
Convenientuntruth
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kon veen yent unt rooth
Sentence: a convenientuntruth is usually the result of a question they are glad you asked.
Etymology: convenient truth
Heartfeltdootspeak
Created by: joshms
Pronunciation: heart-felt-doot-speak
Sentence: Everything that comes out of Blair's mouth is complete heartfeltdootspeak
Etymology:
Balonimony
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ba-LO-na-mo-nee
Sentence: When he was running for office, he gave an oathspiel about how he cared about the environment; when he was elected, I realized it was just his bullief and nothing more than balonimony.
Etymology: baloney (a lie), testimony
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COMMENTS:
good one as usual! :-) - toadstool57, 2007-03-22: 07:47:00
Fantastic. - ErWenn, 2007-03-22: 08:02:00
Clever. :-) - jedijawa, 2007-03-22: 21:53:00
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Truthbending
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: truth bending
Sentence: this guy believes himself, he is obviously truthbending
Etymology: truth en bending
Believabable
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: bee-leev-a-baa-bul
Sentence: "I feel your pain" he believababled.
Etymology: Believe-to have confidence in the truth bable(babel)-to mutter incoherently
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COMMENTS:
I like it! - jedijawa, 2007-03-22: 21:52:00
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Falsetty
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: fal-set-ee
Sentence: I didn’t think that Hillary padded the truth until I she saw her Bosnian video which exposed her falsetties. But I supposed I should have anticipated this, given her husband’s known preference for falsettio.
Etymology: false + said + etty
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COMMENTS:
ooh - some zingers in this one - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-12: 11:44:00
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Bullegit
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: bull-le-git
Sentence: Bush gave his State of the Union speech, full of bullegit statements, pertaining to global warning.
Etymology: bull sh**/legit, slang for truth
Politiwrap
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: po-LIT-eh-rap
Sentence: Senator Bugle once again orated in politiwrap, information that met his own test for beign factual but not necessarily related to the truth as the rest of the country might see it.
Etymology: Blend of 'political' and 'wrap' (v. To surround or involve in a specified quality or atmosphere) also a play on the word 'rap' or 'speech/talk'
