This uses a solecistic which in a restrictive clause!. From Wordnik.com. [Up from out of in under for] Reference
It makes you solecistic and sort of self-enclosed without being successfully introspective. From Wordnik.com. [American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America] Reference
The k before e, or any letter except a, is solecistic, just as in no. 831 is the c, instead of k, for calendas. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it] Reference
Yet another esoteric and solecistic equivalent to "male chauvinist" and the ism-fevered like?. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Really, help. com, stringing together a bunch of solecistic insults and seemingly random babble is hardly effective. From Wordnik.com. [[Help] Most Recent Posts] Reference
B., using the (otherwise) solecistic awful pretty as an example, condemns awfully and demands very, highly, extremely. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2] Reference
The out in and on off combinations are perhaps second cousins to moroxes, but they have that same solecistic slippage, to coin an alliteration. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 2] Reference
Infelicitous, ungrammatical, solecistic, unsemantic, unskillful, and just plain bad style in the use of language is what drives all of us to distraction. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4] Reference
But even the Oxford English Dictionary, that curmudgeonly packrat of the tongue, can't explain the solecistic origins of the "f" and "v" forms of the word (of which there must be one hundred permutations and combinations) in its native land. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1] Reference
To impute such sacrifices to a desire for speed is not only a misinterpretation of the evidence but a curious thing to say, for those who are in a hurry are scarcely likely to stop everything, pick up this (or any other book) to check something, and then resume their headlong plunge into the solecistic abyss. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
From Alexander the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation, or joining in an inquiry about the thing itself, not about the word, or by some other fit suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
From Alexander, the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation, or joining in an inquiry about the thing itself, not about the word, or by some other fit suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [I] Reference
(if indefensible) rationale: it is a good example of solecistic (as contrasted with syllogistic) reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1] Reference
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