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Example sentences for: morox
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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.