solecism

Example Sentences

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For all the dash and raciness of his English, he has a way of lapsing into solecisms, some of which are rather astonishing in view of his general sophistication.

From The New Yorker

Each week he’d pass around a handout titled Your Liberal Arts $s at Work, which collected solecisms perpetrated by students in the previous week’s writing.

From The Guardian

After a minute of refreshing, Palmeri followed up with a second tweet, comparing the commission’s neologism to one of George W Bush’s most famous solecisms, “misunderestimated”.

From The Guardian

There’s no more awful social solecism than accusing someone of being dead when they aren’t.

From The Guardian

However, obscured by Mr. Perry’s solecisms is a more deep-seated, pressing issue: are Mr. Perry’s views compatible with America?

From Forbes