Italian, Once Praised, Seen as Nazi Collaborator
By PATRICIA COHENInformation about a man celebrated for saving Jews is being removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in light of evidence that the tales may be untrue.
In some aberrant uses that pretend to be especially deep, the words "knowledge" and "truth" become tinged with a mystical aura.
Grammatically the verb "believes" is transitive, like "kicks" or "drives". We say "He believes it" just as we say "He kicks it," "He drives it." This circumstance could tempt one to think of belief as an activity, which we saw it is not.
No reliable news from the fronts. The Germans are across the Pruth, but it seems to be disputed whether they are across the Beresina. The destruction claimed by both sides is obviously untruthful. The Russians claim that German casualties are already 700,000, i.e. about 10 per cent of Hitler’s whole army.
The wreckage of Air Algérie #AH5017 has been found in Mali:http://nyti.ms/Uw5Ytx. The jetliner crashed early Thursday with 116 people on board.
Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer to buy the Internet company Yahoo is not an aberration but part of a broader trend in which suitors make bold unsolicited bids during a time of weak stock prices and tight credit markets.
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aberrant
(ăb'ər-ənt, ă-bĕr'-)
adj.
- Deviating from the proper or expected course.
- Deviating from what is normal; untrue to type.
One that is aberrant.
[Latin aberrāns, aberrant-, present participle of aberrāre, to go astray. See aberration.]
aberrance ab'er·rance or ab'er·ran·cy n.aberrantly ab'er·rant·ly adv.
USAGE NOTE Traditionally aberrant has been pronounced with stress on the second syllable. In recent years, however, a pronunciation with stress on the first syllable has become equally common and may eventually supplant the older pronunciation. This change is owing perhaps to the influence of the words aberration and aberrated, which are stressed on the first syllable. The Usage Panel was divided almost evenly on the subject: 45 percent preferred the older pronunciation and 50 percent preferred the newer one. The remaining 5 percent of the Panelists said they use both pronunciations.
- [əbérənt]
[形]((形式))
1 〈行動などが〉正道[軌道]を踏みはずした, 常軌を逸した;〈考えなどが〉とっぴな.
2 異常な;〈生物が〉(突然変異などによる)異常型の.
━━[名]変人, 奇人.
[ラテン語ab-離れて+errāre歩きまわる, 誤る+-ant現在分詞語尾. △ERR]
aberration
noun [C or U] FORMAL ━━ n. 正道をはずれること, 常軌の逸脱; (一時的な)精神錯乱[異常]; 錯誤; 【生物】変異; 【光】(レンズの)収差; 【天文】光行差.
a temporary change from the typical or usual way of behaving:
In a moment of aberration, she agreed to go with him.
I'm sorry I'm late - I had a mental aberration and forgot we had a meeting today.
aberration
Line breaks: ab|er¦ra¦tion
Pronunciation: /ˌabəˈreɪʃ(ə)n /NOUN
Origin
late 16th century: from Latin aberratio(n-), from aberrare'to stray' (see aberrant).
Definition of untruthful
adjective
Derivatives
untruthfully
adverb
adverb
untruthfulness
noun
noun
Definition of untrue
adjective
Derivatives
untruly
adverb
adverb
- mendacious
- adj.
- Addicted to rhetoric.
- Lying; untruthful: a mendacious child.
- False; untrue: a mendacious statement. See synonyms at dishonest.
[From Latin mendācium, lie, from mendāx, mendāc-, mendacious.]
tempt
(tĕmpt)
v., tempt·ed, tempt·ing, tempts. v.tr.
- To try to get (someone) to do wrong, especially by a promise of reward.
- To be inviting or attractive to: A second helping tempted me. We refused the offer even though it tempted us. See synonyms at lure.
- To provoke or to risk provoking: Don't tempt fate.
- To cause to be strongly disposed: He was tempted to walk out.
To be attractive or inviting: a meal that tempts.
[Middle English tempten, from Old French tempter, from Latin temptāre, to feel, try.]
temptable tempt'a·ble adj.tempter tempt'er n.
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