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Another way to phrase your question: is it acceptable to use deliberately deceptive language to a college admissions office?
In Britain they are illegal for civilians to use deliberately, but not, yet, to buy: Ofcom, a regulator, is mulling a ban.
Use deliberately compromised cryptography, that has a back door that only the "good guys" are supposed to have the keys to, and you have effectively no security.
Many more use deliberately vague and expansive language, language that would never pass muster in a scientific journal because it's too imprecise to be tested or falsified.
On occasion, when a well-meaning bigot (a term I use deliberately) tries to excuse this phenomenon of treating Asian-Americans as perpetual foreigners, he makes it worse.
They just keep flailing away at the tar baby (a term I use deliberately) so vigorously that they don't realize that they are caught in a trap of their own making that is leading to both their unmasking and their undoing.
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The Balfour declaration used deliberately vague language.
Sometimes it's used deliberately to attach status to an artwork or exhibition.
In a war, propaganda is used deliberately to help shape public opinion.
"Individuals [at Uefa] have used deliberately inflammatory language which Chelsea finds unjust and unhelpful.
And he often used deliberately disorientating multimedia stagings that were closer to experimental theatre than to classical ballet.
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