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technicality
/ ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪtɪ /
noun
- a petty formal point arising from a strict interpretation of rules, etc
the case was dismissed on a technicality
- the state or quality of being technical
- technical methods and vocabulary
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Other Words From
- hyper·techni·cali·ty noun
- over·techni·cali·ty noun plural overtechnicalities
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Word History and Origins
Origin of technicality1
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Example Sentences
It will not be your legal responsibility, but you're simply winning on a technicality.
He was arrested, tried and, thanks to a technicality, acquitted.
The case was tossed out the following year on a technicality.
The effect would be to knock down California's gay-marriage ban on a technicality, without affecting the rest of the country.
I said “Britcom” earlier; Father Ted is only that on a technicality.
The real experience has a magnetism of its own and will win above mere technicality whenever it has the opportunity.
She slid into the silence with a technicality, asking if John still took his old inordinate amount of sugar.
They are—to fall back on the ancient technicality—Realists of a crude sort.
Should he condemn himself and Doris Cleveland to heartache and loneliness because of a technicality?
This I cal186l the Apology of technicality inspired by tyranny.
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