We know too many politicians are well-versed in using words most of us understand to mean one thing, but they will use it to mean something slightly different. At first, their meaning may not seem obviously different from how we normally use and understand those words. Yet, if we parse their verbiage so to speak, we will come to understand that they mean something other than what is generally meant and accepted as having that specific meaning.

We also of course have those politicians and bureaucrats who simply lie with a straight face. I’m not talking about those individuals at all. Those of us who have and use critical thinking skills see the lies for what they are and reject them. For instance, when Mayorkas can look at people in Congress during a congressional hearing and point blank state that the USA’s southern border is “secure,” we understand him to be lying. He is not wordsmithing nor is he nuancing. He is simply outright lying.

Wordsmithing is generally accepted to be something along the lines of:

1. A fluent and prolific writer, especially one who writes professionally.
2. An expert on words. [1]