NOUN
- misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service
- the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
How To Use blowback In A Sentence
- This, he opines, is much better than human rights commissions and tribunals which he describes as suffering from "blowback". Archive 2009-05-01
- In essence, the old CIA term, " blowback ", means that a nation reaps what it sows.
- The flow of people, goods and ideas across borders makes blowback inevitable.
- I don't think they were prepared for this kind of blowback in terms of this whole issues of her daughter.
- For instance, should lawmakers in Washington enact overtly hostile policies that further weaken China's trade-dependent economy, the blowback could be substantial.
- The US is facing "blowback," attack by those who were formerly allies.
- The realpolitik executive will be seen as a uniter, will perhaps awe Lieberman into line with the Democrats, and won't provoke much blowback from the Democrats because the target of Lieberman's indiscipline is calling for reconciliation. Discourse.net: Call Your Senator about Lieberman (UPDATED)
- Blowback exists in absolutely every aspect of life, because nothing comes without unintended consequences.
- Don't think the change will come without a political blowback, though.
- Peter tossed another fistful into the foam, staying out of the blowback as wind sang over the waves. DEAD LINES
