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Sentences with amphibology

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  • What you said is right but I smell an amphibology here.
  • Self-destructive treason and the haunting discourse of amphibology reduce the play to the strutting and fretting of a poor player upon the stage of political battle, ultimately, in its amphibolic circularity, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
  • An amphibology is a statement that is ambiguous or can be taken in two ways.
  • Insofar as each one of the three words underlined above has more than one meaning, the sentence is an amphibology, and one difficult to translate literally.
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