Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A falsehood; a lie: from the fact that the inhabitants of Crete were in ancient times reputed to be so much given to mendacity that Cretan and liar were considered synonymous terms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Cretan practice; lying; a falsehood.
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Examples
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And for those who claimed a filipinio and not a pacfan they're are just stupid litch keep on sucking blood 'and sucking dirty freak. lol .. a fililpino, a pac haters? oh no dude wake up and go home wherever you belong, get lost assle. destroy yourself. if u are "puro" filipino a boxing lover u never allow your countrymen to have that kind of cretism specially pacquiao.
MVN 2008
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A similar, if theologically less complicated syn - cretism surrounds the artist, poet, and scientist during the Renaissance.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968
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