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catachresis

[kat-uh-kree-sis] / ˌkæt əˈkri sɪs /
NOUN
barbarism
Synonyms
STRONGEST
atrocity barbarity brutality cruelty inhumanity
STRONG
coarseness corruption impropriety localism malapropism misuse provincialism solecism vulgarism
WEAK
misusage primitive culture uncivilizedness vernacularism vernacularity
Antonyms
STRONGEST
kindness niceness
WEAK
praise
NOUN
misuse
Synonyms
STRONGEST
corruption exploitation harm maltreatment mistreatment prostitution squandering waste
STRONG
barbarism desecration dissipation ill-treatment injury malapropism misapplication perversion profanation solecism
WEAK
abusage cruel treatment misemployment misusage rough handling
Antonyms
STRONG
praise

Example Sentences

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In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least, of both the words, fortune and fools.

From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

In this sense the proverb is current by a misuse, or a catachresis at least of both the words, Fortune and Fools.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Lodge, Henry Cabot

V.—I like that catachresis, but once again I repeat, I am practical, and prefer synedoche.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

It is a sort of quaint alteration or catachresis of Possunt quia posse videntur.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

The hyperbole and catachresis are so nearly related to a bull, that I shall dwell upon them with pleasure.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Edgeworth, Maria