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solecism
noun
(sol-e-cism)
a socially awkward or tactless act
Synonyms:
faux pas,
gaffe
,
gaucherie
,
slip
,
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faux pas
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gaucherie
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gaffe
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slip
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malapropism
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peccadillo
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pedantry
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split infinitive
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inexactitude
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spoonerism
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incoherence
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grammarian
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journalese
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lexis
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infelicities
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solecistically
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archaisms
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wishfulness
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misquotation
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tautologies
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dilettantism
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crudities
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priggishness
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prolixity
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neologisms
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doublethink
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charlatanry
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shavian
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enormities
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insipidity
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inarticulateness
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casuistry
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barbarisms
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idiocies
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foible
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sarcasms
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historicism
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expostulation
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unworldliness
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pedant
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incomprehensibility
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poesy
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obtuseness
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subjunctive
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circumlocution
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harlotry
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monosyllable
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max beerbohm
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threnody
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tu quoque
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grandiloquence
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coinages
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logical fallacy
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philistinism
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vagary
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attitudinizing
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theologizing
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ironist
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fatuousness
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garrulousness
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knavery
,
logician
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idiosyncrasy
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sneery
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punctiliousness
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apologia
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pompousness
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misnaming
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versification
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shakespearean sonnet
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lexicography
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non sequitur
,
tetchiness
,
scansion
,
maupassant
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doubleness
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windiness
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unintelligibility
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simpering
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orotund
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presumptuousness
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solecism
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