Words similar to oxymoron

Example sentences for: oxymoron

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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.
Coz casts himself as the conscience of tabloid journalism (if that's not an oxymoron).
The landmark Swann suit had its origins in the 1955 Supreme Court decision known as Brown II . Brown II gummed up the initial 1954 Brown ruling--which had decreed segregated schools unconstitutional--by saying, in a now-infamous oxymoron, that desegregation should proceed "with all deliberate speed."
“ Retrogressive aggrandizements,” maybe, but that's an oxymoron of another colour entirely.
Oxymoron is an oxymoron.