truthiness
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I hate to engage in what Steven Colbert calls "truthiness," but you know, that ` s pretty much all I got, you know, besides the volumes of facts.
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- Truthfulness.
[Rare.] Truthiness is a habit, like every other virtue. There I hold by the Peripatetics. Noctes Ambrosianæ, Feb., 1832.
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I hate to engage in what Steven Colbert calls "truthiness," but you know, that ` s pretty much all I got, you know, besides the volumes of facts.
— CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2006 -
Stephen Colbert, star of the Comedy Channel's "Colbert Report," coined the word truthiness which has been named the word of a year in an online survey by Miriam Webster.
— CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2006 -
Now there's "truthiness" -- "truthiness," a word invented to make fun of news commentators is making news itself.
— CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2006 -
In the three and a half years since comedian Stephen Colbert coined the term "truthiness," we've learned that there's a whole class of people for whom a thing's truthiness is the only test of its actual truth.
— theday.Com - Breaking News -
What I do think we're seeing here is this war and struggle between truth and "truthiness," and if you remember ...
— CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2009
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