technicality
[tek-ni-kal-i-tee]
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Origin of technicality
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Examples from the Web for technicality
Contemporary Examples
It will not be your legal responsibility, but you're simply winning on a technicality.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in IraqNathan Bradley Bethea
August 31, 2014
He was arrested, tried and, thanks to a technicality, acquitted.
Nigeria’s Larger-Than-Life Nobel Laureate Chronicles a Fascinating LifeChimamanda Adichie
August 9, 2014
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.
Historical Examples
So it's a technicality that you don't have to be loyal to an orphan home.
Pee-wee HarrisPercy Keese Fitzhugh
By a technicality of law they were allowed a month to appeal, during which they were at liberty.
A Zola DictionaryJ. G. Patterson
My father does not remember on what technicality my application was dismissed.
The Promised LandMary Antin
My knowledge of the technicality of co-operation is next to nothing.
Third class in Indian railwaysMahatma Gandhi
Technicality is as little consonant with the one as with the other.
technicality
- a petty formal point arising from a strict interpretation of rules, etcthe case was dismissed on a technicality
- the state or quality of being technical
- technical methods and vocabulary
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Word Origin and History for technicality
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