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Definition of amphibolous in English: amphibolousadjective See amphibology Example sentencesExamples - An amphibolous sentence permits a double interpretation, one view of which may be true and the other false.
- No discussion of amphibolgy would be complete without a few gems from the most amphibolous president in US history.
- But on the other, demand for too much clarity bogs things down: it is paralysis by strict literalism, and, I believe, it is often meant to detract from a particular interlocutor's argument (it is to suggest that he is vague, clumsy, amphibolous or stupid, i.e., it's a veiled ad hominem), or it is meant to draw attention to oneself, one's needs, or one's dizzying and exacting intellect.
- These are words, known by many names: autoantonym, antagonym, contranym, enantiodromic, amphibolous, Janus word, and so on.
- Demonstrating remarkable figurai acumen, his amphibolous ‘its’ is a delicious example of the conflation that enables the slippage between agent and agency.
Definition of amphibolous in US English: amphibolousadjectiveamˈfibələs See amphibology Example sentencesExamples - But on the other, demand for too much clarity bogs things down: it is paralysis by strict literalism, and, I believe, it is often meant to detract from a particular interlocutor's argument (it is to suggest that he is vague, clumsy, amphibolous or stupid, i.e., it's a veiled ad hominem), or it is meant to draw attention to oneself, one's needs, or one's dizzying and exacting intellect.
- No discussion of amphibolgy would be complete without a few gems from the most amphibolous president in US history.
- An amphibolous sentence permits a double interpretation, one view of which may be true and the other false.
- These are words, known by many names: autoantonym, antagonym, contranym, enantiodromic, amphibolous, Janus word, and so on.
- Demonstrating remarkable figurai acumen, his amphibolous ‘its’ is a delicious example of the conflation that enables the slippage between agent and agency.
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