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Example sentences for: colloquial

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colloquial, disputed use a family, class, or set (not of the same ilk as you).
I am assuming, as the editor of this dictionary argues, that slang is not just colloquial language, but that it is often aggressively informal, that it doesn't tolerate pretense, that it is often crude, blunt, ribald, egalitarian--in short, very unpretentious and honest language.
There are also in Pepys's Diary words and phrases that have been admitted to our standard language but that still sound a bit colloquial.
But in the process, the sentence would become less colloquial and less intelligible.
Occasionally, the colloquial name, by itself, adds to the information given in the binomial: the platypus (Ornithorhyncus anatinas ) is a (ducklike, bird-snouted) flatfoot.