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oxymoronic, a.|ˌɒksɪmɔəˈrɒnɪk| [f. oxymoron + -ic.] Suggestive of oxymoron; incongruous, self-contradictory. So oxymoˈronically adv.
1901Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) I. 270 A little bore, whose oxymoronically belated-premature death we hail..as a merciful release. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 164 It would be oxymoronic to claim to be gently, reliably or sensibly in love. 1972P. Green Shadow of Parthenon 35 ‘Imperial democracy’, that oxymoronic contradiction in terms. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Oct. 1226/5 Professor Hardy's point..is signalled by the oxymoronic ‘dubious consolations’ of her title. |