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Awfully Good Oxymorons
Sep 10, 2020 14:15:53   #
PulletSurprise Loc: Columbus, GA
 
Act naturally
alone together
Awfully nice
bittersweet
cheerful pessimist
civil war
Clearly confused
clearly misunderstood
crash landing
cruel kindness
deafening silence
deceptively honest
definite maybe
deliberate speed
devout atheist
dull roar
eloquent silence
even odds
exact estimate
extinct life
Farewell reception
found missing
freezer burn
friendly takeover
genuine imitation
good grief
growing smaller
guest host
historical present
humane slaughter
icy hot
i***t savant
ill health
impossible solution
intense apathy
joyful sadness
jumbo shrimp
larger half
lead balloon
living dead
living end
living sacrifices
loosely sealed
minor miracle
negative growth
negative income
old news
one-man band
only choice
openly deceptive
open secret
original copy
overbearingly modest
paper tablecloth
paper towel
peaceful conquest
plastic glasses
plastic silverware
poor health
pretty ugly
properly ridiculous
random order
recorded live
resident alien
same difference
seriously funny
shrewd dumbness
silent scream
small crowd
"The Sound of Silence"
static flow
steel wool
student teacher
sweet sorrow
terribly good
theoretical experience
true fiction
unbiased opinion
unconscious awareness
upward fall
wise fool
working vacation

Here are a few well-known quotations using oxymorons.

● "I like a smuggler. He is the only honest thief." - Charles Lamb
• "I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible." - Oscar Wilde
• "Modern dancing is so old fashioned." - Samuel Goldwyn
• "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford
• "I am a deeply superficial person." - Andy Warhol
• "We're busy doing nothing." - Bing Crosby
• "No one goes to that restaurant anymore. It's always too crowded." - Yogi Berra
• "A joke is an extremely serious issue." - Winston Churchill


A few examples of oxymoron in sentences:

1. Clara clearly misunderstood my point.
2. He did the exact opposite of what I told him to do.
3. I hope nobody pulls a practical joke on me on April Fools.
4. We got into a fight, so she stormed out and left me all alone.
5. Thea is my least favorite person at work.
6. She has a terribly good voice.
7. Mark is acting oddly normal amidst everything that has happened to him.
8. The deafening silence between us is k*****g me.
9. The movie I watched the other day was incredibly dull.
10. I let out a silent scream as Clayton grabbed me from behind.
11. It’s an open secret that they have been seeing each other for a year now.
12. The woman he is with is painfully beautiful.
13. The joke Marco said in class was seriously funny.
14. I can’t think straight because I’m going through a minor crisis in my life at the moment.
15. I didn’t think Avocado ice cream would be d********gly delicious.
16. With summer just around the corner, I’m sticking to my heavy diet.
17. Jenny was forced to stand down from her position as secretary.
18. I had no choice but to tell her the t***h.
19. Our love story is a beautiful tragedy in the making.
20. According to my calculated guess, he’ll arrive in about an hour or so.

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Sep 10, 2020 14:48:59   #
Seth
 
PulletSurprise wrote:
Act naturally
alone together
Awfully nice
bittersweet
cheerful pessimist
civil war
Clearly confused
clearly misunderstood
crash landing
cruel kindness
deafening silence
deceptively honest
definite maybe
deliberate speed
devout atheist
dull roar
eloquent silence
even odds
exact estimate
extinct life
Farewell reception
found missing
freezer burn
friendly takeover
genuine imitation
good grief
growing smaller
guest host
historical present
humane slaughter
icy hot
i***t savant
ill health
impossible solution
intense apathy
joyful sadness
jumbo shrimp
larger half
lead balloon
living dead
living end
living sacrifices
loosely sealed
minor miracle
negative growth
negative income
old news
one-man band
only choice
openly deceptive
open secret
original copy
overbearingly modest
paper tablecloth
paper towel
peaceful conquest
plastic glasses
plastic silverware
poor health
pretty ugly
properly ridiculous
random order
recorded live
resident alien
same difference
seriously funny
shrewd dumbness
silent scream
small crowd
"The Sound of Silence"
static flow
steel wool
student teacher
sweet sorrow
terribly good
theoretical experience
true fiction
unbiased opinion
unconscious awareness
upward fall
wise fool
working vacation

Here are a few well-known quotations using oxymorons.

● "I like a smuggler. He is the only honest thief." - Charles Lamb
• "I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible." - Oscar Wilde
• "Modern dancing is so old fashioned." - Samuel Goldwyn
• "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford
• "I am a deeply superficial person." - Andy Warhol
• "We're busy doing nothing." - Bing Crosby
• "No one goes to that restaurant anymore. It's always too crowded." - Yogi Berra
• "A joke is an extremely serious issue." - Winston Churchill


A few examples of oxymoron in sentences:

1. Clara clearly misunderstood my point.
2. He did the exact opposite of what I told him to do.
3. I hope nobody pulls a practical joke on me on April Fools.
4. We got into a fight, so she stormed out and left me all alone.
5. Thea is my least favorite person at work.
6. She has a terribly good voice.
7. Mark is acting oddly normal amidst everything that has happened to him.
8. The deafening silence between us is k*****g me.
9. The movie I watched the other day was incredibly dull.
10. I let out a silent scream as Clayton grabbed me from behind.
11. It’s an open secret that they have been seeing each other for a year now.
12. The woman he is with is painfully beautiful.
13. The joke Marco said in class was seriously funny.
14. I can’t think straight because I’m going through a minor crisis in my life at the moment.
15. I didn’t think Avocado ice cream would be d********gly delicious.
16. With summer just around the corner, I’m sticking to my heavy diet.
17. Jenny was forced to stand down from her position as secretary.
18. I had no choice but to tell her the t***h.
19. Our love story is a beautiful tragedy in the making.
20. According to my calculated guess, he’ll arrive in about an hour or so.
Act naturally br alone together br Awfully nice br... (show quote)


Can you imagine what George Carlin could do with the above?

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Sep 11, 2020 02:47:50   #
PulletSurprise Loc: Columbus, GA
 
Seth wrote:
Can you imagine what George Carlin could do with the above?


I could give you an exact estimate!

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Sep 11, 2020 04:08:17   #
Seth
 
PulletSurprise wrote:
I could give you an exact estimate!



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Sep 11, 2020 17:06:09   #
elledee
 
you left out right wing extremist

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Sep 11, 2020 19:40:17   #
Smedley_buzkill
 
elledee wrote:
you left out right wing extremist


Not to mention intelligent Liberal.

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Sep 12, 2020 01:13:15   #
Y360AZ
 
'Climbing down' [a tree or anything] is impossible.

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Sep 12, 2020 10:33:49   #
Seth
 
Y360AZ wrote:
'Climbing down' [a tree or anything] is impossible.


Unless you have a way to descend upwards...

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Sep 13, 2020 19:55:18   #
TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!
 
PulletSurprise wrote:
I could give you an exact estimate!


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Those will get a person in trouble!😂😂😂😂😂

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