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nyctohylophobic bat

a bat that’s afraid of the dark.

Your call is important to us

mainstream hipster

Basically Complicated

Oxymorons are basically complicated.

Clever Blonde

If you have ever heard a blonde joke or talked to a typical bottle blonde, you can understand this completely. If you …

pretty fat

Playful Sadism

Quiet Women

Rummage carefully

Empirical Logic

transfer station

trans means across, implying movement and station relates to stationary, or not moving.

True misconception

fresh fart

Domestic foreigner

Native Americans were considered domestic foreigners in the 1790s

Obscured Clarity

anger management

preseason finale

Tentatively finalized

Relaxation exercises

benign dictator

Liberal Republican

Progressive

The term “Progressive” is the only one-word oxymoron I know of – it encompasses the incredibly destructive force that liberal tactics and …

early lately

I’ve been getting up earlier lately.

sad laugh

Weight Loss

Weight (heavy) Loss (lighter)

compulsorily voluntary

voluntary compulsion

permanent press

permanent press as in you shouldn’t need to iron it…

Dry port

Humane Meat

It was always just a marketing scam, nothing more. For in-depth info and documentation, please read: humanemyth.org

minimally invasive

hand blown

Hands don’t blow

Spontaneous Plan

Found this on a social network site

Insanely sane.

insanely- an insensible amount. sane (sanity)- mentally sound. Insanely sane- Being extremely sane, or mentally sound/stable.

blood pudding

Doesn’t seem possible, but my grandmother loved the stuff

Italian politics

Needs an explanation???

immediate future

immediate = instantaneous , present, now future = time to come

Take your time and hurry up.

Conversely: Hurry up and take your time.

racist joke

How can racist and joke fit together?

musical chairs

Chairs aren’t musical

Demi Moore

An Actress with an Oxymoron name. Demi = little or small : Moore is More!

Evolving Contentment

Oxymoron or Nah?

darkday

dark refers to night.Day refers to brightness

Graceful Klutz

If something is graceful then it is elegant or charming and smooth, whereas as a klutz slips and falls down a lot.

barefoot running shoes

If you are wearing shoes, you are not barefoot

medical marijuana

Maybe, maybe not

Volvo sportscar

Volvo can NOT make a sports cars since they are so safety-minded they would prevent it from doing anything sporty.

Liberal men

You can’t have liberal politics and be a man.

unconditional love

un-conditional love

intelligent Democrat

Must I? (Probably). Call someone

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