terminological inexactitude
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Who used the phrase "terminological inexactitude" to mean "lie", to get around rules on unparliamentary language?
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2012
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 said: 'The right honorable gentleman committed a terminological inexactitude.'
From Time Magazine Archive
Normally open and candid persons are found concealing the paper against a later and freer hour; terminological inexactitude is even resorted to in order to cover such jackdaw-hoardings; glances become covetous and suspicious.
From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 by Various
He got out of the difficulty by calling it a "terminological inexactitude."
From Private Peat by Peat, Harold Reginald
