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Guilt By Association

Definition: Guilt By Association

Guilt By Association

Noun

1. The attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Frequency of Internet Keywords: Guilt By Association

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

guilt by association

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Guilt by association

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The logical fallacy of guilt by association is claiming that something must be false because of the people or organisations who support it.

Examples:

  1. Atheism must be wrong, because Karl Marx and Stalin were atheists, and just look at them.
  2. Anne: "Wow - that's a great word-processor". Bill: "Yes it's Microsoft Word". Anne: "Well there must be something wrong with it then, because Microsoft use unfair business practices"
  3. Anne: "I think that there should be heavier penalties for drug-dealers". Bill: "really, that's a BNP policy! You don't want to support those racists do you!"

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Guilt by association."

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Anagrams: Guilt By Association

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-g-i-i-i-l-n-o-o-s-s-t-t-u-y"

-4 letters: sustainability.

-5 letters: abolitionists, antisocialist, assignability, coalitionists, sociolinguist, solicitations, unsociability.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Guilt By Association


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 75 69 6C 74      42 79      41 73 73 6F 63 69 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01110101 01101001 01101100 01110100 00100000 01000010 01111001 00100000 01000001 01110011 01110011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#117 &#105 &#108 &#116 &#32 &#66 &#121 &#32 &#65 &#115 &#115 &#111 &#99 &#105 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0075 0069 006C 0074      0042 0079      0041 0073 0073 006F 0063 0069 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41877578862369123585858169756786758180

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INDEX

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2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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