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Sentence example with the word 'solecism'
solecism
anachronism, argumentum ad hominem, boner, bungle, error, formal fallacy, hysteron proteron, insincere argument, mere rhetoric, non sequitur, sophistry, vulgarism
Definition
n.
a socially awkward or tactless act
Last update: August 31, 2015
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Students shouldn't do any type of
solecism
with their teachers.
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The "qualified" congregations were gradually absorbed, though traces of this ecclesiastical
solecism
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Equite cannot exist without justice; society without justice is a
solecism
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He apologized profusely to Stirling for having committed such a
solecism
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Their methods are the methods of their fathers--a
solecism
, stupid, irrational, immoral.
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[254] "First began" is a
solecism
common in the newspaper writing of to-day.
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The treatment of
solecism
and barbarism in grammar corresponded to that of fallacies in logic.
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"Probably she didn't say Barkley," observed Francesca cuttingly; "she would have been sure to commit that sort of
solecism
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