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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "solecism" in a sentence

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    solecism


    1. same compartment? The use of ‘might’ here may sense a solecism


    2. Your garb and manner were restricted by rule; your air was often diffident, and altogether that of one refined by nature, but absolutely unused to society, and a good deal afraid of making herself disadvantageously conspicuous by some solecism or blunder; yet when addressed, you lifted a keen, a daring, and a glowing eye to your interlocutor’s face: there was penetration and power in each glance you gave; when plied by close questions, you found ready and round answers


    3. I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in this, that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey albatrosses; and these I have frequently seen, but never with such emotions as when I beheld the Antarctic fowl


    4. It would be a solecism in language to call it a power


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    Synonyms for "solecism"

    faux pas gaffe gaucherie slip solecism culpability fault wrongdoing indiscretion impropriety misdeed dereliction

    "solecism" definitions

    a socially awkward or tactless act