Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

06761099-n 'a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth';

English	evasion , equivocation ( ⊳ )
Indonesian	dalih

Definitions

Japanese: 文字通り間違っていないが、巧妙に不愉快な真実を避ける声明
English: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

Relations

Hyponym:	circumlocution doublespeak hedge quibble
Hypernym:	misrepresentation
Semantic Field:	communication_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ ▲ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.392; Future: 0.001)

SentiWN: △ ▼ (+0.00 -0.50) MLSentiCon: △ ▼ (+0.00 -0.25)