phraseology
noun
manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language.
phraseological
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a word derived from
phraseology.
Example Sentences
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Not missing from Mr. Kamps’s script, which has fun with some of the dialect’s phraseological oddities, but missing from Mr. Quinn’s production.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2018
Then he changed his mind, reverted to melo dramatic people and situations, but kept the stream-of-consciousness style and some phraseological high jinks.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in the mechanical, phraseological movement of his thought he was able to hide himself.
From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht
He had heard all this before, many a time, with insignificant phraseological variations.
From Red Masquerade by Louis Joseph Vance
The purists may, accordingly, dismiss their apprehensions, especially as the neoterists have, clearly, a keener horror of phraseological ungainliness than themselves.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
