"oxymoronic" is an acceptable word in written English.
It typically describes a figure of speech in which two words that appear to contradict each other are used together to describe a single concept (e.g. "jumbo shrimp"). You can use the word in any context where you are discussing a figure of speech that uses contradictory terms. Example sentence: "The phrase 'actual fiction' is a classic example of an oxymoronic statement."
However, in recent years, the FCO has briefed ministers to call the events a "tragedy" but to deny genocide because "the evidence is not sufficiently unequivocal" – an oxymoronic term (something is either unequivocal or it is not).
Larry Summers' claim last year that the whole idea of an expansionary fiscal contraction is "oxymoronic" looks to have been right.
"In a real market economy, private business should be in a dominant position," he says a view that pushes the ideological envelope in a country still officially wedded to the oxymoronic notion of a "socialist market economy".Mr Xia admits that many people fear privatisation will increase unemployment and lead to social breakdown.
WRITING for Which MBA? back in 2010, Philip Delves Broughton, author of "What They Teach You at Harvard Business School", wrote: "There is surely no more oxymoronic profession than the tenured business-school professor...these job-squatting apostles of the free market".
The report suggests reclassifying these oxymoronic offences which would mean tidying up oddities such as bigamy and "concealment of birth" as well as the much more prevalent "common assault" and "harassment", which sound worse than they are.Many people want crime statistics to provide other sorts of information, too especially on crime levels in specific towns and neighbourhoods.
That leaves Venezuela in the oxymoronic situation of being a "full member in process of accession".
"Change" and "responsibility", the abstract nouns that make up his platform, sound oddly oxymoronic.
It is oxymoronic: we cannot all be leaders because, by definition, a leader needs a few followers.
There is surely no more oxymoronic profession than the tenured business-school professor, and yet these job-squatting apostles of the free market are rife and desperate.
But never have so many big financial institutions the oxymoronic "smart money"—been so bilked by an individual.
Fern Schair, the head of the Committee for Modern Courts, a legal reform group, thinks there have to be changes not only in the way judges are selected but also in the Democratic Party itself.The biggest beneficiary of the scandal will be those oxymoronic figures, Brooklyn Republicans, if they can only figure out how to seize the moment.
