Words Seldom Seen: Terminological Inexactitude

“Terminological Inexactitude”

An erudite way of saying “Liar.”

A phrase used by Winston Churchill during a parliamentary speech in 1905 days after he had been admonished by the Prime Minister for accusing an MP across the aisle of being a “liar.”

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