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Example sentences for "solecisms"

Lexicographically close words:
soldiery; soldo; sole; solebat; solecism; soled; soleil; solely; solem; solemn
  1. Then, though less afraid of 'solecisms in etiquette,' she made no progress in familiarity, but each day revealed more plainly how much too lowly and ignorant she was to be ever one of the family.

  2. But the old inscriptions, even of the fourth and fifth centuries, are full of solecisms and corrupt orthography.

  3. Solecisms and barbarous terms, which sometimes occur in the old Byzantine writers, are said to deform the style of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

  4. Though many solecisms and barbarous words occur in the writings of what were called learned men, they possessed a fluency of expression in Latin which does not often occur at present.

  5. The Englishman may be surprised at the number of solecisms committed in the course of an hour's talk by a well-to-do New Yorker whom he has met in the company of gentlemen in England.

  6. And so this poor Versailles Court, as the chief or central Solecism, finds all the other Solecisms arrayed against it.

  7. Sidenote: HELP FROM BOOKS] There are manuals of etiquette which will keep you from open solecisms in social usages.

  8. Duncan, the physician, observed aloud that it was surprising that the demon, who knew everything, should commit barbarisms and solecisms in Latin, and not be able to answer in Greek.

  9. Even this seems to have been introduced afresh by Bede and the writers of the eighth century, who much excel their immediate predecessors in avoiding gross solecisms of grammar.

  10. I say, madam, there are many sarcasms in it, and solecisms also.

  11. I am not so ignorant, madam, as not to see there are many sarcasms contained in it, and solecisms also.

  12. Taking my place at the board, I proceeded to eat with a voracity that only a long fast could have excused; and thus took but little heed of my companions, whose solecisms in table etiquette might otherwise have amused me.

  13. One cannot always be satisfied laughing at their solecisms in breeding and propriety.

  14. We should never permit solecisms in a friend, but teach him better.

  15. Oh, I am willing enough; only you have not made any solecisms in the usual sense.

  16. In a different set of circumstances, under a different inspiration, and with a different artistic attitude, solecisms they certainly are not.

  17. It was necessary for him to have always at his beck some men of letters from Paris to point out the solecisms and false rhymes of which, to the last, he was frequently guilty.

  18. One or two of these solecisms should perhaps be attributed to the printer, who has certainly done his best to fill both the text and the notes with all sorts of blunders.

  19. But what shall we think of the taste which admits such solecisms against nature, whilst objecting to the conventionalities practised by the early Christian masters, and adopted by the purists of our own day?

  20. Elevation of sentiment or purity of design no longer sufficed,[*205] and with the competition which ensued for the guidance of public taste, there sprang up many solecisms to degrade it.

  21. I am not so ignorant, Madam, as not to see there are many sarcasms contained in it, and solecisms also.

  22. I say, Madam, there are sarcasms in it, and solecisms also.

  23. The Apollo of Homer was still one, with a great diversity of gifts; but mythological solecisms were already apparent in his character, like cracks in a stately building.

  24. Solecisms have been treated under the earlier chapters on grammar.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solecisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.