Noun

(contextomies)

The practice (or act) of quoting a person (or people) out of context, often with the aim of winning an argument, often intending obfuscation of the quote's actual meaning.

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, year=1964 , author=Milton Mayer , title=What can a man do?: A selection of his most challenging writings , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=33 , passage=…saying that the Literary Gazette'' had committed the ''Chicago Tribune's habitual crime of contextomy against me. , indent2=*:}}

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, year=1967 , author=Paul F. Boller , title=Quotemanship: the use and abuse of quotations for polemical and other purposes , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=286 , passage=The competent quoteman, no matter how eager he is to outwit his opponent, will have neither the need nor the inclination to stoop to contextomy of the flagrantly mendacious sort. , indent2=*:}}

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, year=2008 , date=May 29 , author=Amol Rajan , title=Excellent! Theatres forced to withdraw misleading reviews , work=The Independent citation , passage=The prosecution would have to prove that audiences were misled by the practice, known as contextomy . Those who break the laws could face fines… , indent2=*:}}