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

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contextomy

Source Word

contextomy

countable uncountable

Japanese Meaning

文脈を無視して発言を引用し、発言者の本来の意図を歪める行為

The journalist admitted that the quote was a contextomy intended to make the politician look inconsistent.

その記者は、その引用が政治家を矛盾して見せようとした文脈を無視した引用だったと認めた。

Sense（1）

…saying that the Literary Gazette had committed the Chicago Tribune's habitual crime of contextomy against me.

contextomies

（ plural ）