A socially awkward or tactless act.
Phrase that transgresses the rules of grammar.
1 A dead State is a solecism , a contradiction in terms, an impossibility.
2 What is a suspension of existence, but a temporary annihilation!- A complete solecism !
3 Equite cannot exist without justice; society without justice is a solecism .
4 A Methodist pastor is a solecism ; Methodism is a moving evangelism.
5 Not to have seen Chaumont in Totot chez Tata was held a solecism .
6 One custom, however, prevails, which I looked upon as a solecism in politeness.
7 He apologized profusely to Stirling for having committed such a solecism .
8 Engaged persons should be careful not to commit this conspicuous solecism .
9 Post-modernist chatterati were left in agonies of indecision about which solecism was worse.
10 But what to do with Scotland, with its covenanted king, a solecism incarnate?
11 She was exceedingly anxious not to commit any social solecism .
12 Whatever it did was unpardonable, and we had to be informed of the solecism .
13 He was an antithesis in human nature-oreven a solecism .
14 It would have been a gross solecism to knock, but Simon performed the equivalent.
15 However, it was easy to ignore a rich man's solecism .
16 The treatment of solecism and barbarism in grammar corresponded to that of fallacies in logic.
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