phraseological
- 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 Hecht, Ben
He had heard all this before, many a time, with insignificant phraseological variations.
From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph
Now Johnson had spent years of his life, during the compilation of his Dictionary, in doing nothing else but defining; and, whenever the dispute took a phraseological turn, he had it all his own way.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by Black, William
