big lie

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big lie

also Big Lie
n.
Repeated distortion of the truth on a grand scale, especially for propaganda purposes.
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big′ lie′


n.
a false statement of outrageous magnitude used as a propaganda measure.
[1945–50]
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Four decades of climate change denial may just be the big lie that finally does for human life on Earth, writes Joyce McMillan.
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Not since Joe McCarthy, the demagogue and bully who rose to political prominence in the early 1950s by blatantly distorting the truth, has there been a public figure like Donald Trump, the Republican front runner with a penchant for telling "the big lie" about anything from President Obama's birthplace to Mexican immigrants' putative criminality, and from how African Americans are responsible for most white homicides to how "thousands and thousands" of Arabs in New Jersey City cheered as the Twin Towers were attacked on 9/11 - along with a host of other fantastical tales in between.
Are we not witnessing the Big Lie technique hard at work regarding the Iran Deal?
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Not because of the Union Jack" - Singer Charlotte Church, above, attacking the Government's austerity policy as "the big lie".
In a May 13 column posted on conspiracy website WND (World Net Daily), Nugent wrote, "The Big Lie about guns is that innocent kids are being gunned down or are accidentally shooting each other."
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