Merriam Webster has chosen the 2022 Word of the Year: ‘Gaslighting.’
MW defines the word to mean “The act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage.”
Here’s a perfect example of the usage of that practice, provided by very liberal CNN host Don Lemon during an appearance with Stephen Colbert last night:
“I don’t think we ever were liberal,” Lemon says with a straight face. There you go. What better example could you possibly have?