33 adjectives to describe solecism

She got him not only to buy fine pictures, as most rich men do, but she made him see wherein their value lay, so that when artists and amateurs came to admire his treasures, he could talk to them without gross solecisms.

They say, 'The ship is being built,''time is being wasted,"'the work is being advanced,' instead of, 'the ship is building, time is wasting, the work is advancing.' Such a phraseology is a solecism too palpable to receive any favor; it is at war with the practice of the most distinguished writers in the English language, such as Dr. Johnson and Addison.

The Jacobins are decidedly adverse to it; and it is a sort of revolutionary solecism, that those who boast of having been the original destroyers of despotism, are now the advocates of arbitrary imprisonment, and restraints on the freedom of the press.

Engaged persons should be careful not to commit this conspicuous solecism.

There is many a man, moving in good society, who would rather be guilty of, and even detected in, an act of unkindness or mendacity, than be seen in an unfashionable dress or commit a grammatical solecism or a broach of social etiquette.

I now turn from mere solecisms to the broader question of taste.

She was, still, however, much more distressed than mere consciousness of the grave solecism she had committed could explain.

For example: On the subject of the numbers, he attempted but one definition, and that is a fourfold solecism.

"Several other expressions of this sort now and then occur, such as the new-fangled and most uncouth solecism, 'is being done,' for the good old English idiomatic expression, 'is doing,'an absurd periphrasis, driving out a pointed and pithy turn of the English language.

" "I guess," answered Pepperill laconically, indulging in his only frequent solecism, "that you wouldn't offer to plead to manslaughter unless you felt pretty sure your client was going to the chair!

This confusion of tenses, this grand solecism of two presents, is in a degree common to all postage.

But this awkward innovation, use it who will, can no more be justified by a plea of "need," than can every other hackneyed solecism extant.

Marion Hildreth was just Evadne's age, with a pink and white beauty and soft eyes which turned deprecatingly at intervals towards Isabelle, as though to ask pardon for imaginary solecisms against Miss Hildreth's code of etiquette.

But what to do with Scotland, with its covenanted king, a solecism incarnate?

This is an indigenous solecism; they do not say so in England.

And he goes on to repudiate, it will be observed, not so much the moral offence of corruption, in receiving money to spare Warburton, as the intellectual solecism of selecting him for ridicule.

The following example, which makes what both singular and plural at once, is a manifest solecism: "What has since followed are but natural consequences.

We had been married, I suppose, about six months, when, sitting one evening over a cozy wood-fire in our cozy little parlor, just under the work of art I have described at such length, Charlie committed his first matrimonial solecism.

It must be observed, however, that this remark applies only to the intellectual workers, who, if they do occasionally commit a minor solecism in dress or manners, are forgiven on account of their fame and talents.

Besides several other faults, it contains a palpable misuse of the article itself: "the h" which is specified in the second and fifth sentences, is the "silent h" of the first sentence; and this inaccurate specification gives us the two obvious solecisms of supposing, "if the [silent] h be sounded," and of locating "words WHERE the [silent] h is not silent!"

The only gentlemanliness she needs in a husband is ordinary good address, presentable manners, sense enough to avoid ridiculous solecisms in society, and so forth.

We have seen even well-bred men at evening parties commit this selfish and vulgar solecism.

Lord Dufferin delivered an address before the Greek class of the McGill University about which a reporter wrote: "His lordship spoke to the class in the purest ancient Greek, without mispronouncing a word or making the slightest grammatical solecism.

Probably our most nearly universal solecism.

Besides, it contains an actual solecism in the expression.

33 adjectives to describe  solecism