An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox, as in the word 'bittersweet' or the phrase 'living death.'
Other examples are: clearly misunderstood, random pattern, true fiction, deliberate mistake, and harmless crime.
A List of Oxymora.
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The fogot my favovite oxymoron, "pretty ugly."
I hear it all the time...
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