Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contextomy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-tex-to-my
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"…saying that the Literary Gazette had committed the Chicago Tribune's habitual crime of contextomy against me."
"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."
"The prosecution would have to prove that audiences were misled by the practice, known as contextomy. Those who break the laws could face fines […]"

Etymology

From context + -tomy.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: context

Usage

Inflected Forms

contextomies (plural)

Derived Forms

contextomize

Synonyms

quote mining

Questions

What does contextomy mean?: The act or practice of quoting somebody out of context, often to give a false impression of what they said.
Where does contextomy come from?: From context + -tomy.

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