Ever snore at the opera? Burp at the dinner table? Forget your mom's birthday? Probably all three, right? Well, don't worry. Instead of just screwing up, what you did was commit a solecism. Sounds kinda neat that way, huh?
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.
Noun
a socially awkward or tactless act
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.
n.
Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety,
as in deeds or manners.
Solecism
A barbarism may be in one word; a solecism must be of more.2.
C'91sar, by dismissing his guards and retaining his power, committed a dangerous solecism in politics.
The idea of having committed the slightest solecism in politeness was agony to him.
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.
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