terminological inexactitude
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Who used the phrase "terminological inexactitude" to mean "lie", to get around rules on unparliamentary language?
From BBC ā Jun. 15, 2012
He said: 'The right honorable gentleman committed a terminological inexactitude.'
From Time Magazine Archive
With the British a lie becomes a terminological inexactitude which is praised by the world as diplomacy of a high order.
From Time Magazine Archive
He got out of the difficulty by calling it a "terminological inexactitude."
From Private Peat by Harold Reginald Peat
Its popular designation preserves its early ecclesiastical associations, though with some degree of "terminological inexactitude."
From Somerset by G. W. Wade
