Definition of "oxymoron" []

• A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. (noun)

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• "You spend 50 bucks for a tank of gas just to go hunt and you miss that big one, so how oxymoron is that!"
• "'Early on' petroleum was unrestricted -- a social-positioning free-for-all including crimes such as fraud and violence such as homicide, and all of it called, (in oxymoron disguise) a 'free market.'"
• "Indeed, our little national anthem has inspired VANOC CEO John Furlong to apply for the intellectual property rights to this refrain, a rather strange oxymoron from a man who stood on the shoulders of giants to rip off the official song representing 33 million souls:"