1984 vocabulary

Larry: Two out of five Republicans still think Obama is a Muslim. So, is it hopeless?

Felonious Munk: Oh, of course not. But Obama's perspicacity may be ipso facto a mendacious canard, for the verbiage we use to describe something can change our opinions of it.

Felonious Munk on The Larry Wilmore Show

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—Do you intend that now, the squat student said, as ipso facto or, let us say, as so to speak?

James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man