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solecism

noun as in misuse

noun as in blunder

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That said, it’s perhaps worthwhile to have a one-stop shop for all these solecisms, if only for the purpose of debunking them en masse.

Politicians of all stripes have used opponents’ solecisms to question their intelligence since time immemorial.

Search online and you will not find an image of Prince Philip committing a style solecism.

The text is garnished liberally with “sic”s and symbols, typos and solecisms, spellings inconsistent and incoherent.

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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