Peter Sokolowski
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1,021 appearances
67 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
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Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from Hello magazine.
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Even the most environmentally aware beauty editors I know, perhaps that's an oxymoron given the amount of product we have to test for our jobs, use sheet masks on a weekly basis.
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And the trend is showing no signs of slowing.
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The ancient Greeks exhaustively classified the elements of rhetoric or effective speech and writing, and gave the name oxymoron, literally pointed foolishness, to the deliberate juxtaposing of seemingly contradictory words.
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The roots of oxymoron, oxys meaning sharp or keen, and moros meaning foolish, are nearly antonyms themselves, making oxymoron.
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Oxymoron nicely self-descriptive.
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Oxymoron originally applied to a meaningful paradox condensed into a couple of words, as in lonely crowd or sweet sorrow.
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Today, however, what is commonly cited as an oxymoron is often simply a curiosity of language, where one or both elements have multiple meanings, as in shrimp or
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From jumbo shrimp, which doesn't mean small, it refers to a sea creature.
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Or a phrase whose elements seem antithetical in spirit, such as organized chaos.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the word of the day for August seventeenth.
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Today's word is lackadaisical.
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Spelled L A C K A D A I S I C A L.
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Lacadaisical is an adjective.
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Someone or something described as lackadaisical is lacking in interest, enthusiasm, or zest.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the Daily Gazette of Schenectady.
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The defense was lackadaisical at best, while the offense wasn't much better.
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We're too enthusiastic about the lexicon to be lackadaisical about words, but the word lackadaisical itself is rooted in the sort of sorrow that can put a damper on one's passion for vocabulary expansion.
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