circumlegally

[Benjamin Zimmer]

One blogger suggests an early candidate for 2006 WOTY: "circumlegally".

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http://farragonews.blogspot.com/2006/01/truthiness.html
The term refers to "the ability to skirt or bypass existing legal
requirements by successfully arguing that the behavior or action was
appropriate because either a) the law, in the interest of national
security, doesn't apply to you, b) the law doesn't mean what the rest
of the country thought it meant or c) it is what the law ought to
allow anyway."
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I like it, but it currently gets zero Googlehits.


--Ben Zimmer