07102034-n 'strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')';
 
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Japanese
語句の不自然または矛盾した使用法で、誤って(「香りのよい」の意味で「騒々しい」を使うなど)あるいは不適切に(「盲いた口」のような混喩など)使うもの
English
strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
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Hypernym: rhetorical_device
Semantic Field: communicationn
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TempoWN: (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.005; Future: 0.000)

SentiWN: (+0.12 -0.62) MLSentiCon: (+0.12 -0.25)


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