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The lie that never had to say a word.
means Something left out—a fact, action, or detail that was skipped or not included—whether by accident or on purpose.
from From Latin omittere, 'to let go, disregard, or set aside'—built from ob- ('toward, away') plus mittere ('to send, let go'). The same mittere gives us 'mission,' 'transmit,' and 'permit.' So omission is literally a 'sending away'—the thing that got released from the sentence, the story, the confession, and simply never arrived.
- legal weight
- courts punish it almost as hard as lying
- favorite habitat
- resumes, apologies, and fine print
- sneaky trait
- technically true, practically misleading
- sin ranking
- catholicism gives it its own category