Meaning of antiphrase | Babel Free

Definitions

A word or phrase used in a sense that is different to its literal or usual meaning.

Examples

“[T]he first man came right up to me and held out his hand in the European manner of greeting, save only that it was the left hand instead of the right, and in an English the most mutilated and full of antiphrases I had ever heard said that he was my friend[.]”

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