(n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.
(n.) Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) Golly; so riled is Abrams that he has committed a Hollywood solecism – you never tell anyone not to come.
(2) This study presents a model which does not perpetuate this solecism.
(3) Seven methodological solecisms have clouded judgment over the question of lead toxicity at low dose: worship of the sacrament of p = 0.05; inaccurate causal modeling; drawing conclusions from studies with inadequate power; positing phantom covariates; underestimating the importance of "small" effects; demanding proof of causality; and evaluating studies in isolation.