1. committing errors in grammar, syntax, or usage; speaking or writing incorrectly
Usage: formal; literary

Examples

• The student kept solecizing by mixing up verb tenses.
• His habit of solecizing made his writing difficult to follow.
• The professor noticed the foreign exchange student was solecizing frequently.
• She was embarrassed to find herself solecizing during the formal presentation.
• The editor’s job was to catch writers who were solecizing in their manuscripts.