Crossword-Solution: SOLECISM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Solecism | n. | An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax. |
| Solecism | n. | Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SOLECISM | anagram | MISSCLEO |
We have 19 clues for the answer “SOLECISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Violation of etiquette | 1 answer |
| Verbal violation | 1 answer |
| Ungrammatical usage | 1 answer |
| Substandard use of words. | 1 answer |
| Grammatical glitch | 1 answer |
| Bit of nonstandard grammar | 1 answer |
| Grammatical blunder | 1 answer |
| Grammatical error | 1 answer |
| Grammatical mistake? | 2 answers |
| Grammatical slip. | 3 answers |
| ARTICULATE sound | 6 answers |
| indecorum | 10 answers |
| FALSE name | 11 answers |
| BARBARISM | 17 answers |
| bloomer | 20 answers |
| Gaffe | 26 answers |
| Faux pas | 43 answers |
| inelegance | 46 answers |
| Impropriety | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SOLECISM (5)
But with reverence to these grave authorities, it seems unlikely that the assembled princes of Europe should have adjudged to Godfrey a coat armorial so much contrary to the general rule, if such rule had then existed; at any rate, it proves that metal upon metal, now accounted a solecism in heraldry, was admitted in other cases similar to that in the text.
The man who enjoys so wholly and bears so impatiently the slightest widowhood from joy, is just the man to lose a night’s rest over some paltry question of his right to fiddle on the leads, or to be “vexed to the blood” by a solecism in his wife’s attire; and we find in consequence that he was always peevish when he was hungry, and that his head “aked mightily” after a dispute.
The idea of having committed the slightest solecism in politeness, whether real or imaginary, was agony to him; for perhaps even guilt itself does not impose upon some minds so keen a sense of shame and remorse, as a modest, sensitive, and inexperienced youth feels from the consciousness of having neglected etiquette, or excited ridicule.
And the reasons are these three, I think: first, that the visible heavens in summer appear far higher, more distant, and (if such a solecism may be excused) more infinite; the clouds, by which chiefly the eye expounds the distance of the blue pavilion stretched over our heads, are in summer more voluminous, massed and accumulated in far grander and more towering piles.
But, if Le Fevre did commit this solecism, he would have told Bedloe a different story; if he confessed to him at all.
Quotes with SOLECISM (3)
This meaning-argument is of a very different kind from the arguments I have been speaking about so far. The premise entails the conclusion all right, but it is so astoundingly false that it defies criticism, at first, by the simple method of taking the reader's breath away. This was a method which the neo-Hegelian idealists later perfected: reasoning from a sudden and violent solecism. Say or imply, for example, that in English “value” means the same as “individuality.” You c…
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains ask yourself the question: Not what style but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity vulgarity anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1963–2018).