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OP Thanks, Faldage, for the example.
I think Mark Twain must be a master of antiphrasitic (?) usage.
This isn't an example of that, but I remember reading something of Twain's in which he was describing how slowly his riverboat moved, and he observed that the islands moved more rapidly than this riverboat.
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WW
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