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contextomy

noun

Etymology

From context + -tomy.

  1. derived from contextus
  2. suffixed as contextomy — “context + tomy”

Definitions

  1. The act or practice of quoting somebody out of context, often to give a false impression…

    The act or practice of quoting somebody out of context, often to give a false impression of what they said.

    • …saying that the Literary Gazette had committed the Chicago Tribune's habitual crime of contextomy against me.
    • The competent quoteman, no matter how eager he is to outwit his opponent, will have neither the need nor the inclination to stoop to contextomy of the flagrantly mendacious sort.
    • The prosecution would have to prove that audiences were misled by the practice, known as contextomy. Those who break the laws could face fines […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA