Solecism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SOLECISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an ungrammatical combination of words
• a grammatical mistake in speech or writing.
• a breach of good manners; an instance of incorrect behaviour.
• minor grammatical mistake
• 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.
• Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.
• a socially awkward or tactless act
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence

Words related to SOLECISM

solecisms13 solecist10 solecistic14 solecistically21 solecists11

Words that contain SOLECISM

solecisms13

How to use SOLECISM in a sentence

• She was, still, however, much more distressed than mere consciousness of the grave solecism she had committed could explain.
• He who formed the erroneous sentence, has in this case no alternative, but either to acknowledge the solecism, or to deny the authority of the rule.
• Besides, it contains an actual solecism in the expression.
• But, to my apprehension, every such comparison of equality involves a solecism, when, as it here happens, the former term includes the latter.
• This usage, however it may seem to involve a solecism, is established by that authority against which the mere grammarian has scarcely a right to remonstrate.
• But care should be taken lest it produce ambiguity or obscurity, absurdity or solecism.
• Almost any other solecism may be quite as well justified as this.
• To represent by the same word, and without figure, property, and the owner of that property, is a solecism.
• Thus we have not merely been dealing with only one half of the truth, but that, to use a solecism, the lesser half.
• She was exceedingly anxious not to commit any social solecism.
• His role in life was like that of a dancing bear, which is held to commit a solecism every time it settles wearily down on the four legs nature gave it.
• This solecism may be called any thing but republican, and ought undoubtedly to be corrected.
• That there should be public functionaries independent of the nation, whatever may be their demerit, is a solecism in a republic, of the first order of absurdity and inconsistency.
• He did not understand the vast difference between the unlettered person who commits a solecism and Pascal, the inventor of a new syntax.
• Instead of the beautiful language of the original, there is solecism and barbarous English.
• Gladstone or Lord Salisbury, make Brown unconsciously commit that solecism? It is a question of degree.
• If a man of fashion wished to protest against some solecism in another man of fashion, his utterance would be a mere string of set phrases, as lifeless as a string of dead fish.
• If my lady is within, I follow Parker to the drawing-room, my knees shaking under me at the prospect of committing some solecism in his sight.
• It may take the form of barbarism, impropriety, or solecism.
• Engaged persons should be careful not to commit this conspicuous solecism.
• We have seen even well-bred men at evening parties commit this selfish and vulgar solecism.
• If he commits this solecism he must not be surprised to find that she does not return his salutation.
• A dead State is a solecism, a contradiction in terms, an impossibility.
• A government that relies on thirteen independent sovereignties for the means of its existence, is a solecism in theory, and a mere nullity in practice.

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