illogicality

Example Sentences

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By the end of the show, the queen, Morgan said, “is wrestling with the illogicality of the system” that required such duty of her.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2023

And yet, this accusation of illogicality is only applied to AAVE, and never to other languages with negative concord.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2018

While not explicitly about anorexia, Safe evokes the real experience of the illness: the self-imprisonment, the illogicality, the sense you are being eaten up from within by forces you cannot control.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2017

But the articles kick-started pressure to reform, so the age of consent was raised, while, with a certain illogicality, the minimum age of marriage for girls remained 12 until 1929.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2012

Surely all this was enough to make one despair and contemn the whole idea of intercourse with spirits… But Jessie suddenly became aware of a basic illogicality in her position.

From Across the Stream by Benson, Edward Frederic