06761099-n 'a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth';
 
English evasion , equivocation ( )
Indonesian dalih
Definitions
English
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
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
Relations
Hyponym: circumlocution doublespeak hedge quibble
Hypernym: misrepresentation
Semantic Field: communicationn
External Links

SUMO: ⊂ SubjectiveAssessmentAttribute

TempoWN: (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.392; Future: 0.001)

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


Langs:

Preferences
(0.01840 seconds)
More detail about the Open Multilingual Wordnet (1.3)
This project is now integrated in the Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet (1.3)
Maintainer: Francis Bond <bond@ieee.org>