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kyriolexy

kyriolexy

English

Noun

kyriolexy β€Ž(uncountable)

  1. (rare) The use of literal expressions, as opposed to figurative; of clear, as opposed to obscure.
    • 2012, Foo Yin Tung, This is Business: My Life as a Singapore Gangster II, page 118:
      β€œIs my kyriolexy hasty for your obtuse brain?” I said sarcastically.