English Dictionary

contextomy

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

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

日本語の意味

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。

意味（1）

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.

contextomies （ plural ）