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  • adjective Not factual; false or fictional.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ factual

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Examples

  • Politicians, pundits, pontificators, and proselytizers are terrified to utter those words, even as they are called to the carpet for inarguably erroneous statements, nonfactual facts, denial of reality, and, well, just plain lies and don't forget damned lies and statistics.

    Dr. Jim Taylor: 3 Words We Need in Politics Dr. Jim Taylor 2011

  • R.J. Reynolds counsel Martin L. Holton III said "the graphic warnings include nonfactual cartoon images and controversial photographs that have been technologically manipulated to maximize an emotional response from viewers."

    Cigarette Makers File Labeling Suit Drew FitzGerald 2011

  • Just proof-positive that they have NO argument and are sticking together with a negative, nonfactual method of proving themselves.

    McConnell: There's a bailout fund in current Wall St. reform bill 2010

  • Poplawski's friends said he was very concerned about this completely nonfactual conservative storyline - Obama wants to take away all of our guns - was a factor in the killings.

    "Is it possible that there might be something really ugly at the core of contemporary liberalism?" Ann Althouse 2009

  • If Scholz wrote 3 belligerent, irreverent and nonfactual articles like this each day she would be a major player in baiting for links.

    Which SEO Brain Do You Use? 2007

  • Any response to gotalife only perpetuates these pithy, glib, nonfactual nonsense.

    Obama Campaign: "We Are Less Than 300 Delegates From Securing Nomination" 2009

  • It is all too obvious these people don't know their heads from their asses, and that their attacks against Obama and his supporters are little more than the first things that pop into their heads, regardless of how ridiculous, ignorant, nonfactual, or contradictory they may be. jaluo wrote on January 24, 2008 10: 31 AM:

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Radio Ad: Hillary Will Say Anything To Get Elected 2009

  • My very own braindead incompetent, John Carter, keeps sending out these dishonest, nonfactual bits of neocon publicity, and then has an automatic calling thing call our number with a recorded voice telling me to stay on the line for an important message--and then a recording of *him*, the blustering loudmouth himself, spewing a load of untruth about health care and wanting me to stay on the line for a "town meeting" phone call.

    From Twitter 11-06-2009 e_moon60 2009

  • It is all too obvious these people don't know their heads from their asses, and that their attacks against Obama and his supporters are little more than the first things that pop into their heads, regardless of how ridiculous, ignorant, nonfactual, or contradictory they may be.

    Obama Radio Ad: Hillary Will Say Anything To Get Elected 2009

  • Your diatribe about Hillary supporting deregulation is totally nonfactual.

    Obama Pokes Fun At Hillary's Shot-And-A-Beer 2009

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