Example sentences for: solecisms

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

  • Last week, as I was arranging my notes on solecisms called from television, radio, and newspapers, I suddenly realized that updating the long list, even without citing dates and perpetrators, had begun to take up too much time.

  • (Today's Papers wishes the WP corrected solecisms in its quotations, even solecisms committed by Nobel laureates in literature.)

  • 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.

  • For instance, I have a very low tolerance for spelling errors and grammatical solecisms in letters of application from those soliciting work: job applicants who are too careless to correct the capitalization of california and the spelling Britian get short shrift, though I am more tolerant of those using presently for now .

  • They, too, can read and write, of course, but their “solecisms,” “barbarisms,” and “vulgarisms” call for rebuke, and what better rebuke than to treat them as if they did not belong at all—to condemn them figuratively to the outer darkness of the unlettered?


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