Peter Sokolowski
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829 appearances
55 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Aug
Peter Sokolowski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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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when folks living from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century had one of those days when nothing goes right
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They would cry Lack a Day to express their sorrow and disappointment as a shortened form of the expression a lack the day.
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A lack is an interjection
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sayings.
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Today the word has lost some of its dreariness and most often describes the languid and the lazy.
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