technicality

[ US /ˌtɛknɪˈkæɫɪti/ ]
[ UK /tˈɛknɪkˈælɪti/ ]

NOUN

the state of being technical as in the use of technical terms or methods
It is a tribute to the tribunals that the technicality at the heart of the appellate process in these tribunals can and does coexist with the relative informality in atmosphere and with procedural flexibility.
the judicial system suffered from too much technicality and formality
a specific detail in a set of rules or terms belonging to a particular field
the defendant was acquitted on a legal technicality
the resolution died on a technicality

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How To Use technicality In A Sentence

Like a disreputable character who wins a libel action on a technicality, he should be given a ha'p'orth of damages, if any.
His release hinged on a legal technicality: the police did not tell him he was under arrest or that he had the right to a lawyer. Times, Sunday Times
But the conviction was overturned on a technicality.
New guidelines to independent appeals panels call for them to take into account the impact on the whole school of bringing back excluded pupils, and not to reinstate pupils on a technicality.
When the psycho is caught, then let go on a technicality, Mom takes matters into her own hands.
He had evaded a long prison sentence in 2000 on a technicality after being caught with 1.6 million of counterfeit money. Times, Sunday Times
His lawyer told him he could not understand why the Justice Department would bring up a charge on the technicality of one misdated check.
Not often is a legal technicality the subject of high drama. Times, Sunday Times
In any event, no serious artiste should want to enter any level of competition purely on the basis of a loophole or technicality.
We read this article in LC, maybe, about a group of dyke vigilantes in the Bay Area who were kidnapping guys who had been arrested for rape, clearly done the rape but gotten off on a technicality. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: CLASS

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