technicality

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.