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Adjective- relating to, constituting, or involving an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence.

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  • This uses a solecistic which in a restrictive clause!
  • It makes you solecistic and sort of self-enclosed without being successfully introspective.
  • The k before e, or any letter except a, is solecistic, just as in no. 831 is the c, instead of k, for calendas.
  • Yet another esoteric and solecistic equivalent to "male chauvinist" and the ism-fevered like?
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