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Oxymorons


Oxymorons are phrases or words that seem to contradict themselves. Here are a few that passed across our desks. If you know of any more, share them with us through our contact page.


  • Act naturally
  • Advanced BASIC
  • Almost exactly
  • Alone together
  • Anarchy rules
  • Clearly misunderstood
  • Definite maybe
  • Exact estimate
  • Extinct life
  • Fine mess
  • Found missing
  • Fully empty (thanks Whitney Lynn)
  • Genuine imitation
  • Good grief
  • Intelligent dummy (for auto crash testing—thanks Whitney Lynn
  • Jumbo shrimp
  • Legally drunk
  • The living dead
  • Majority minority (An oxymoron created in the latest census used to describe the populations of Texas and California—thanks Martha Thomas)
  • New classic
  • Now, then, (have you made up your mind?)
  • Passive aggression
  • Peace force
  • Plastic glasses
  • Pretty ugly
  • Resident alien
  • Retarded genius (thanks Whitney Lynn)
  • Same difference
  • Sanitary landfill
  • Silent scream
  • Small crowd
  • Soft rock
  • Student teacher (thanks Susan)
  • Sweet sorrow
  • Synthetic natural gas
  • Taped live
  • Terribly pleased
  • Tight slacks
  • Working vacation

Jokes

  • Bank and trust (thanks Greg Hunt)
  • Government organization
  • Microsoft Works
  • Military Intelligence
  • Senate Ethics Committee (thanks Jim Straughan)

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