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Example sentences for: oxymorons
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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.
Journalistic Integrity, and Other Oxymorons
In Stockholm there is a chain of fast-food restaurants where you can get, along with a fairly high risk of heartburn, what must rank as the ultimate in culinary oxymorons: a hamburger called a Mini Big . If that sounds a trifle too indecisive, you may choose from such offerings as a Cheeseburgare , a Baconburgare , a Big Dream , or something called a Big Clock . All these names are English, more or less.
Oxymorons in general, he says, are well named, and he is against them.
Many responses listed deft and amusing oxymorons, but Lamar Alexander sought something more insidious than mere self-contradiction.