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Loophole

noun

An ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation.

A small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons.

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... merchandise coming into the ports of the British Empire. That is the proposal which has been put forward as the least objectionable form of the preferential proposals, and it has been said of it that it was the least objectionable because it gave no loophole for the corruption which may spring up in the wake ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

... taking count of any trembling, men interfere with each other. Whoever advances or who gives way to the recoil of his weapon deranges the shot of his neighbor. With full pack, the second rank has no loophole; it fires in the air. On the range, spacing men to the extremity of the limits of formation, firing very slowly, men are found who are cool and not too much bothered by the crack of discharge in their ears, who let the smoke pass and seize a loophole of pretty good ...

— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq

... disapprobation of his conduct. There were few idle hands there now. A big munitions factory had been established at Oldhampton, and its demands, added to the necessities of the hospital, left no loophole of ...

— The Hermit of Far End • Margaret Pedler

... suddenly, after a night of hungry restless thinking, the flash of enlightenment came. She had come to my house, had brought her trunk with her, had thrown herself at my head with all possible violence and publicity, in order to give me a pretext, a loophole, an honourable excuse, for doing and saying—why, precisely what I ...

— The Long Run - 1916 • Edith Wharton

... so—though she keeps her kindness under lock and key, like her sweetmeats. Miss Faith, shall I give you a loophole view of those boys—before you venture yourself ...

— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner

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