as in blunder
a socially improper or unsuitable act or remark
the solecism of asking one's hosts how much something in their house cost them
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Recent Examples of solecism
The result is global English but one without the imprecision and solecism implied by that label.
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Colin Marshall,
The New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2022
And a single word couldn’t be a dead giveaway either, no matter how much people would like to portray the use of pled rather than pleaded as an obvious Trumpian solecism, especially when Dowd himself has been documented using pled at least once.
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Ben Zimmer,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2017
Colin Marshall,
The New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2022
And a single word couldn’t be a dead giveaway either, no matter how much people would like to portray the use of pled rather than pleaded as an obvious Trumpian solecism, especially when Dowd himself has been documented using pled at least once.
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Ben Zimmer,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for solecism
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Colorado's rally offset a pair of baserunning blunders that ended the eighth.
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One Republican senator calling this the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.
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That ended his day after five innings of one-run ball, with just one mistake — a slider that Manny Machado clobbered for a solo homer — against him.
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Will this turn into a tragic mistake Daemon soon regrets?
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Eventually, Batula moved past Cooke’s indiscretions and married him in 2021.
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History is littered with the careers of politicians who committed crimes or engaged in moral indiscretions and then tried to lie their way out of public shame.
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With Yerry De los Santos also fumbling a bunt in the eighth, the Yanks tallied a season-high four errors on the night.
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Michael Conforto, Alex Bregman and Ian Happ had RBI hits in the sixth, when the Cubs’ runs were unearned thanks to a pair of errors.
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DoorDash can at least take comfort in the fact that Dot’s latest gaffe isn’t wholly unique.
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Or all the times Republicans went after former President Joe Biden’s gaffes?
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“Solecism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solecism. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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