Example sentences for: morox

How can you use “morox” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • David Galef has coined the term morox [XIV, 2] to designate unintentional, inelegant oxymorons such as many fewer problems, largely insignificant , and barely clothed . I collect solecisms of all sorts that I hear on television broadcasts.

  • In a handful of slips taken from the top of my stack, I found at least one clear-cut morox: Nevada is “much more sparsely populated” than eastern states, according to Robin MacNeil (MacNeil/Lehrer News Report, PBS, 29 May 1986).

  • Is it at heart a morox?

  • . Substantively, if not literally, she made a morox.

  • The inadvertent substitution of ground zero for square one , while luminously ludicrous, is not self-canceling and hence does not convey the empty sense of morox.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast