Etymology
Origin of illogicality
Example Sentences
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By the end of the show, the queen, Morgan said, “is wrestling with the illogicality of the system” that required such duty of her.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2023
And yet, this accusation of illogicality is only applied to AAVE, and never to other languages with negative concord.
From Slate • Jul. 20, 2018
Yet if Allardyce can argue he got his initial decisions right, there was still an illogicality.
From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2018
But the articles kick-started pressure to reform, so the age of consent was raised, while, with a certain illogicality, the minimum age of marriage for girls remained 12 until 1929.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2012
They boast of our anomalies; they boast of our illogicality; they say it shows what a practical people we are.
From All Things Considered by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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