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[ UK /sˈə‍ʊlsɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a socially awkward or tactless act

How To Use solecism In A Sentence

  • Miss Rondel didn't commit the solecism of laughing at her own quip, but there was gladness in her voice. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • The fundamental silliness of my article lies, however, not in its numerous solecisms but in the dubiousness of its central thesis and of the " reasoning’ adduced to support it.
  • The same people who cringe when words such as ‘imply’ and ‘infer’ are confused react without a trace of embarrassment to even the most egregious of numerical solecisms.
  • Again, to use our old solecism, that is the lesser part of the truth; the greater part, for men of religion, is that Jesus is of God, that He belongs to Him. Preaching and Paganism
  • A second-place tie between two teams that each have first-place trophies to dust - Root Learning Inc. and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library - resulted in a sudden-death runoff that ran to four words - "solecism," "jnana," diffa, and "issei," and Root hit pay dirt on Undefined
  • However this argument leads to the flourishing of solecisms and general language degradation.
  • A second-place tie between two teams that each have first-place trophies to dust - Root Learning Inc. and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library - resulted in a sudden-death runoff that ran to four words - "solecism," "jnana," diffa, and "issei," and Root hit pay dirt on Undefined
  • An observation of the students will not be academically behind or solecism students.
  • It is only after close study that apparent solecisms can be interpreted as the keystones of a highly conscious literary construct.
  • It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism. Gershon Hepner: William Safire
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