oxymoron
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definition
noun
Yes, but it does leave a reader ever more certain that the term ‘mature male’ is an oxymoron .
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).
example
One day I sat her down to explain to her the word 'oxymoron' and then to describe a magnificent and bucolic world of insults.
The prose poem is a hybrid form, an anomaly if not a paradox or 'oxymoron' .
The idea of a light of darkness is certainly an 'oxymoron' , certainly a contradiction in terms, and yet we find that among various mystics.
He is a man who, when he was pillaging for the Federal government, reduced the term Public Service to an 'oxymoron' .
An 'oxymoron' is a combination of contradictory or incongruous words such as ‘gentle violence’.
The term native-English speaker itself can be an 'oxymoron' sometimes.
Your Honour secondly asked about the phrase, the apparent 'oxymoron' of non-exclusive possession acts.
What he has written is contemporary history, if the term is not altogether an 'oxymoron' .
I mean, this is an 'oxymoron' , there's nothing free about the speech today.
By contrast, the very idea of false knowledge is an 'oxymoron' .
Yes, but it does leave a reader ever more certain that the term ‘mature male’ is an 'oxymoron' .
Is there a safe gun or is that an 'oxymoron' like a safe cigarette?
In the annals of 'oxymorons' , this has to be among the most oxymoronic.
This might sound 'oxymoronic' , but the fact is relaxation has turned into an aggressive sport.
If these terms sound like 'oxymorons' , that's because they are.
A medley of 'oxymorons' , contradictions, and double-standards.
Another triumph for military intelligence, the finest of all 'oxymorons' .
But several are exclusively concerned with the funeral trade, its absurd 'oxymorons' - ‘the future of death’ - and its expansion into a global industry.
‘Visual Music’ is not as 'oxymoronic' as its title suggests.
Speech was a required elective (which is, in the eyes of the high school student, one of the most contradictory 'oxymorons' to be commonly spoken in the English language).
Prisoners of hope are living, breathing 'oxymorons' .
It is that tension between safety and satire that has traditionally rendered 'oxymoronic' the very notion of corporate comedy.
I have no desire to drive those two 'oxymorons' , ‘classic rock’ and ‘young country,’ from the air.
I'd never have believed it then, but looking back, I think I might have been wearing that most 'oxymoronic' of things: a rebel uniform.
As their name suggests, ‘romances of real life’ denote a self-consciously 'oxymoronic' genre.
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