Example Sentences

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Originally a means to brand and publicize his efforts, this neologistic style became a national trend in the custom car community.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022

It’s basically a fancy neologistic way of saying “look, some numbers!”

From Time • Oct. 17, 2014

Scare quoting the qualifier and not the neologistic noun signaled both skepticism and nascent revulsion on the part of the blogger.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2012

They even empty Tom's whitewash pot of its humor and fill it with one of their characteristically neologistic songs, Gratification�which is not exactly supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

From Time Magazine Archive

Believe me, I do not deserve so neologistic a phrase. 

From The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde, Oscar