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oxymoron Rhetoric an epigrammatic effect, by which contradictory terms are used in conjunction How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This is true of the base, not what is oxymoronically called the Democratic leadership, which has colluded with Bush on the war, either out of cowardice or because the neoconservative wing of the Washington-based Democratic Party actually believes in these hallucinations. And British Attorney General Peter Goldsmith, citing his country's Official Secrets Act, oxymoronically declared an official secret what has got to be 2005's most talked about memo. Mulatto citizens, in Dixon's analysis, oxymoronically rent the infiltration of the body politic with African blood and posed a greater threat to national unity than even did Americans of "pure" African descent. |
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