- (n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; especially, deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.
- (n.) Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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