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A year ago, however, that name started to slip away from her.
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Nikki almost let slip the truth and said, For the moral support.
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He asked her to write her question on a slip of paper.
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Well I hope they choose to let slip a little more today.
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Think I'll just slip in there and tell Marion the good news.
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Sunday's text message error was the latest gaffe by the immigration minister.
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The gaffe caused a six-day delay in election results, but wasn't insurmountable.
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Google leaders have acknowledged that was an embarrassing gaffe for the company.
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The slightest gaffe was met with widespread derision and insistence of incompetence.
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When I lived in London he was known as the gaffe man!
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That good Chinfeather has not quite eradicated our gaucherie, it seems.
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She was as broad as sumptuous in her nature; so what did a gaucherie matter?
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I was about to commit the incredible gaucherie of saying I was glad you'd come along.
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She could not resist the delicate malice of the exclamation, she imitated the gaucherie so delightfully.
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Alone of all his lady acquaintances, Madame Steynlin liked him all the better for this gaucherie.
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Cons On popular routes, fixing lines can be a serious faux pas.
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OUTsurance's faux pas quickly went viral, prompting a response by the insurer.
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This is considered a major netiquette faux pas in the Usenet world.
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A round up of this week's political faux pas with Rob Hosking.
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By the merest accident I have already committed a hideous faux pas.
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A dead State is a solecism, a contradiction in terms, an impossibility.
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What is a suspension of existence, but a temporary annihilation!- Acompletesolecism!
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Equite cannot exist without justice; society without justice is a solecism.
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A Methodist pastor is a solecism; Methodism is a moving evangelism.
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Not to have seen Chaumont in Totot chez Tata was held a solecism.
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One custom, however, prevails, which I looked upon as a solecism in politeness.
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He apologized profusely to Stirling for having committed such a solecism.
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Engaged persons should be careful not to commit this conspicuous solecism.
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Post-modernist chatterati were left in agonies of indecision about which solecism was worse.
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But what to do with Scotland, with its covenanted king, a solecism incarnate?
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She was exceedingly anxious not to commit any social solecism.
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Whatever it did was unpardonable, and we had to be informed of the solecism.
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He was an antithesis in human nature-oreven a solecism.
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It would have been a gross solecism to knock, but Simon performed the equivalent.
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However, it was easy to ignore a rich man's solecism.
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The treatment of solecism and barbarism in grammar corresponded to that of fallacies in logic.
