Moreno has been known in the media to
twist words - like 'etneb' (bente or 20), 'takwarents' (kuwarenta or 40), 'posam' (sampu or 10) and being called 'Yorme' (mayor) - or introduce new terms like 'haciendero,' referring to informal settlers.
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Let's discuss developmental and real issues, not
twist words falsely to score cheap political points," he said in an oblique reference to his BJP and CPM rivals, who lambasted him on Twitter for insulting the fisherman community.
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All will be viewed suspiciously by North Korea, and the government will attempt to
twist words, deeds, and outcomes to support its fundamental premise.
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Unfortunately, Lebanese politicians today have a different legacy when it comes to language, as they
twist words to the letter in a foul war of semantics, introducing adjectives and superlatives that are far from the noble use of language that statesmen are expected to employ.
Leave the church alone
"Women really need to examine why they are so vitriolic towards other women - why they want to
twist words, why they want to read about someone else in a negative light and why that feels good to them." Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Gwyneth has now hit out at women who
twist words. This from the lady who called breaking up a conscious uncoupling.
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He's been resilient "Sir Malcolm Bruce, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, defends his leader against the critics "Women really need to examine why they are so vitriolic towards other women - why they want to
twist words, why they want to read about someone else in a negative light and why that feels good to them"
THEY SAID WHAT?
There is something peculiar, if not downright absurd about how Zionists
twist words and their meanings to always cement their position on that righteous pedestal made out of salt.
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The more modern pieces in this exhibition are not quite so - they show off the artist's ability to
twist words into shape and write at a painfully minute size.
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As a warning from one who likes to
twist words to imply meaning contrary to the original intent, I submit the following short list of examples.
Just what do you mean?
He alleged Andrew Gasson, who at the time lived with his family in Rhydypennau Road, was a manipulative teenager who could
twist words to get what he wanted.
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He refuses to do interviews with UK press, using the tired old argument that they
twist words or invent quotes.
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If by trying to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition you have seemed to
twist words out of their normal order and have created a pompous-sounding locution, abandon the effort.
When I say 'preposition,' what do you think of?
Roget's Thesaurus lists gloze under "misinterpret", alongside misexplain, misteach, misconstrue, pervert,
twist words, misquote, falsify, garble, misrepresent, travesty, parody, caricature.
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In the Hills' letters and in those of other women are the phrases of women who have probably been regular readers of the pre-Richardsonian novel, the novels about courtship that consistently include a man much like Lovelace: dazzlingly attractive, well-born, wealthy, articulate--both "smooth" and able to
twist words and arguments.
Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth-Century Reader