obiter dictum
noun
an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.
obiter dicta
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pluralof obiter dictum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Alito is hardly the first justice to mislead through obiter dicta.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022
Hersey and Wolfe were given to issuing restrictive obiter dicta about nonfiction writing.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Never has so much incident, outrage and media-fanned obiter dicta successfully intruded from the fringes.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2014
Quite the best-written and most incisive obiter dicta I have read since I went through the page proofs of my latest novel.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2013
Some consider the opinion to be loose and inconclusive; others, that it is obiter dicta; and the last sentence is objected to as recognising absolute power in Congress over Territories.
From Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford December Term, 1856. by Benjamin C. Howard
