nifong
/nˈɪfɔŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make a self-serving, politically-motivated accusation or prosecution.
Example Sentences
- "I should have expected Nifonging by liberal rags such as the Herald-Sun. I would have expected better from the Times."
- "We're not going away. We're going to seek justice. What happened to her, she was Nifonged. They just rushed to judgment without any notice of who her accusers were, what the accusations were. They fired her in a couple of days."
- "Imagine for a moment that a similar incident had taken place at a local university and that a prosecutor here had Nifonged."
- "“He never had any intention of finishing off his revenge on Tom DeLay and is scared to death of being Nifonged while still in office,” Ms. Flaherty said, a reference to Michael B. Nifong, the disgraced former prosecutor in the Duke University lacrosse team rape case that collapsed as groundless."
- "Don't get "Nifonged" again!"
Etymology
From German Neufang.