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Merriam-Webster to add the Term "Orange Lie" to the Dictionary in 2017

By: Sherwood DeWitt
December 12, 2016

San Francisco, CA – The Merriam-Webster dictionary will include a new term in 2017 which came about from the 2016 presidential election. Here is how it will appear.

orange lie
noun | or·ange \ˈlī\

Definition of Orange Lie: A huge, bold-face lie, for which everybody knows there are no facts to back it up, but they don't care. They just go along with it anyway.

Word Origin: 2016 Presidential Election

Example: Donald Trump told an orange lie when he tweeted "In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."

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