big lie

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big lie also Big Lie

Repeated distortion of the truth on a grand scale, especially for propaganda purposes: released falsified documents to bolster the big lie that no government troops were involved in the fighting.

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Some North American politicians have also taken up the technique of "The Big Lie.

The Big Lie by Jacobs, Glenn / The New American

Their big lie, on which they pound away in ad after ad on television, is that paycheck protection silences the voices of working people.

PRO: MEASURE CAN DEFEND BASIC RIGHTS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

But this is the state Canada is in today where a Labour politburo gets away with the big lie of saying all its members support the invented nonsense called "same-sex marriage.

Trade unions & 'same-sex marriage law' by Gray, Stephen / Catholic Insight

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