Words similar to oxymoron

Example sentences for: oxymoron

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

Coz casts himself as the conscience of tabloid journalism (if that's not an oxymoron).
Cynics dismiss the term as an oxymoron.
Oxymoron is an oxymoron.
He is, if this is not an oxymoron, a religious technocrat.
To be sure, the W usage note, even with its verbosity and the oxymoron “pure hyperbole,” is more helpful than L 's cryptic “disapproved of by some speakers”; but the definitions are better in L because they assume that if a user does not know the meaning of literally , then that of literal is unlikely to be that obvious.