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That Fugitive Virtue

26 January, 2008 by Amit Varma

The definition of the day comes from George Will:

Gaffe: The utterance of a truth in conditions inhospitable to that fugitive virtue.

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Amit Varma is a writer and podcaster based in Mumbai. He has been a journalist since 2001, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007 and 2015. He writes the blog India Uncut and hosts the weekly podcast, The Seen and the Unseen.

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