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Boned, Flammable and More Anti-Autonyms

By Kyle Kellams

Published January 31, 2023 at 2:09 PM CST

Our Militant Grammarian returns with a list of anti-autonyms: words that look like they should mean the opposite of one another but actually mean the same thing.

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