Oxymoron

Examples of oxymorons

act naturally

advanced basic

airline food

almost exactly

alone together

amateur expert

baby grand (piano)

black light

brief survey

civil war

clearly confused

clearly misunderstood

completely unfinished

Congressional action

Congressional ethics

constant change

criminal justice

crisis management

curved line

definite maybe

deafening silence/ death benefits/ divorce court/ down escalator/ dry beer/ dry ice/ dry wine elementary calculus/ evaporated milk/ extra time/ exact estimate/ express mail fast idle/ first annual/ found missing/ free with purchase/ freezer burn/ fresh frozen/ friendly argument/ friendly fire genuine imitation/ good grief/ gourmet pizza/ governmental efficiency/ graduate student/ great depression/ guest host half dead/ half empty/ half full/ happily married/ hard water/ honest crook/ honest politician/ hopelessly optimistic/ hospital food idiot savant/ industrial park/ irate patient jumbo shrimp/ junk food lean pork/ legal brief/ legally drunk/ light-Heavyweight/ liquid crystal/ live recording mandatory option/ marijuana initiative/ married life/ medium large/ mild abrasive/ military intelligence/ minor disaster/ mutually exclusive/ no-good do-gooder!/ non-alcoholic beer/ non-denominational church/ non-stop flight old news/ organized mess/ original copy/ oxymorons in vehicle names: Dodge Ram/ oxymorons in vehicle names: Cherokee Pioneer partially completed/ passive aggression/ peace force/ peacekeeper missile/ perfect idiot/ plastic glasses/ police protection/ polite cabbie/ presidential promises/ pretty ugly/ proprietary standard random logic (fuzzy logic)/ rap music/ real fantasy/ realistic schedule/ rolling stop same difference/ second best/ silent scream/ singular relationship/ small crowd/ solid glass/ speed limit/ sports sedan/ standard deviation/ student teacher/ sure bet/ sweet sorrow/ synthetic natural gas tax return/ terribly pleased/ terribly nice/ turbo diesel unacceptable solution virtual reality work party/ working vacation

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