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OXYMORONS

Oxymoron is the conjoining of contradictory or incongruous terms (as in silent scream).

http://www.fun-with-words.com/oxym_example.html

See if you could remember or create 2 or 3 oxymorons.

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Permalink Reply by Thomas William Farquhar on August 21, 2009 at 4:23am

honest politician
criminal lawyer

Permalink Reply by Maricel Evasco on August 21, 2009 at 11:04am

Hell's Angels
old news
mercy killing

Permalink Reply by Maricel Evasco on September 9, 2009 at 4:43pm

lol@compassionate conservative

I could understand why you would choose that antonym pairing

Permalink Reply by Maricel Evasco on September 10, 2009 at 7:17pm

nice one. Did you know mud baths are probably the most nutritious baths you can take for your skin?

Permalink Reply by Nick Danger on September 14, 2009 at 9:58am

I'm not sure that mud bath is, in fact, an oxymoron,

One definition of "bath" states:
1. a washing or immersion of something, esp. the body, in water, steam, etc., as for cleansing or medical treatment

Which is exactly what a mud bath is - an immersion in mud, No opposition there, at all.

Permalink Reply by CaliforniaNow on August 4, 2013 at 12:32pm

silly reason

Permalink Reply by flippr 2.0 on October 20, 2013 at 10:12am

ass face

Permalink Reply by CaliforniaNow on February 13, 2014 at 11:30am

try to relax

Permalink Reply by CaliforniaNow on July 4, 2014 at 11:31am

If you're pretty much middle-of-the-road about everything, are you practicing "extreme moderation?"

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