oxymoron
الإرداف الخلفي
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 ).
translation of 'oxymoron'
noun
الإرداف الخلفي
example
An 'oxymoron' is a combination of contradictory or incongruous words such as ‘gentle violence’.
He is a man who, when he was pillaging for the Federal government, reduced the term Public Service to an 'oxymoron' .
The prose poem is a hybrid form, an anomaly if not a paradox or 'oxymoron' .
Is there a safe gun or is that an 'oxymoron' like a safe cigarette?
One day I sat her down to explain to her the word 'oxymoron' and then to describe a magnificent and bucolic world of insults.
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.
Your Honour secondly asked about the phrase, the apparent 'oxymoron' of non-exclusive possession acts.
The idea of a light of darkness is certainly an 'oxymoron' , certainly a contradiction in terms, and yet we find that among various mystics.
The term native-English speaker itself can be an 'oxymoron' sometimes.
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' .
Another triumph for military intelligence, the finest of all 'oxymorons' .
Prisoners of hope are living, breathing 'oxymorons' .
If these terms sound like 'oxymorons' , that's because they are.
This might sound 'oxymoronic' , but the fact is relaxation has turned into an aggressive sport.
I have no desire to drive those two 'oxymorons' , ‘classic rock’ and ‘young country,’ from the air.
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).
As their name suggests, ‘romances of real life’ denote a self-consciously 'oxymoronic' genre.
In the annals of 'oxymorons' , this has to be among the most oxymoronic.
A medley of 'oxymorons' , contradictions, and double-standards.
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.
It is that tension between safety and satire that has traditionally rendered 'oxymoronic' the very notion of corporate comedy.
‘Visual Music’ is not as 'oxymoronic' as its title suggests.
But several are exclusively concerned with the funeral trade, its absurd 'oxymorons' - ‘the future of death’ - and its expansion into a global industry.
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