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• Non sequitur humor is non-Gricean as it intentionally disobeys the maxim of relation.From the entry non-Gricean
• Taoist medicine follows the maxim of "first do no harm".From the entry Taoist
• A flout is when someone deliberately and ostentatiously contravenes a maxim.2012, John Flowerdew, Discourse in English Language Education, page 97. From the entry flout
• According to the old maxim, a woman’s work is never done.2010 October 30, Antonia Zerbisias, “Feminomics: calculating the value of 'women's work'”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 07 Jul 2019. From the entry a woman's work is never done
• There's an old game design maxim: good games take minutes to learn but a lifetime to master.2009, Steve Swink, Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation, Boca Raton, F.L.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 302. From the entry skill ceiling
• He stated this in his grenadier-to-marshall maxim which you may know in the original."2008, Robert B. Whitebrook, Toshi American, page 59. From the entry marshallate
• I'm a great believer in the maxim that you should never meet your heroes.2008 July 22, Phill Jupitus, “Blood, sweat and ink”, in Guardian, retrieved 15 May 2021. From the entry never meet your heroes
• Gilbreth for Walter Camp and Golf Illustrated, disproves the maxim utterly.1920 January, Walter Bannard, “Charting a Champion”, in Popular Science, volume 96, number 1. From the entry cyclegraph
• We have observed that implicatures are a standard strategy for overcoming apparent floutings of the maxims of quality.2013, Scott Brewer, Precedents, Statutes, and Analysis of Legal Concepts. From the entry flouting
• Think about the old customer service maxim, underpromise and overdeliver.2010, Marty Brounstein, Arthur H. Bell, Dayle M. Smith, Business Communication, page 225. From the entry underpromise and overdeliver
• People are assumed to follow the maxim and submaxim, but cross-cultural differences are well-documented regarding the enactment of the submaxim.2004, Michele J. Gelfand, Jeanne M. Brett, The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture, page 316. From the entry submaxim
• "Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick," to borrow one of the former Mayor's favorite maxims.1994 October 7, Todd S. Purdum, “The 1994 Campaign: After Wary Weeks, Dinkins Announces Support for Cuomo”, in New York Times, retrieved…. From the entry better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• THE old maxim for testing wild schemes is summed up in the immortal phrase “suck it and see”.1980 August 21, “Suck it and see”, in New Scientist, volume 87, number 1215, →ISSN, Forum, page 609. From the entry suck it and see
• Ah, how often we lawyers are forced to realize the truth of the old maxim: ‘Silence is golden’!1923 August, Mrs. Wilson Woodrow [i.e., Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow], “[…] Thoroughbred […]”, in Sewell Haggard, editor, Everybody’s…. From the entry overloquacity
• And on a programme of works of this magnitude, passengers will need to be mindful of the age-old maxim of 'no gain without pain'.2020 September 23, Paul Stephen, “East Coast upgrade: changes to schedule... but on schedule”, in Rail, page 31. From the entry magnitude
• Historical reconstructions will follow ‘Skinner’s maxim’, and will constrain themselves to offering only descriptions that the writer in question could in principle endorse.2020, Patrick Fessenbecker, Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature: Literary Content as Artistic Experience, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry Skinner's maxim
• Balance can be used to heighten matched pairs of ideas, as in the maxim "one should eat to live, not live to eat."2013, Carl H. Klaus, A Self Made of Words: Crafting a Distinctive Persona in Nonfiction Writing, →ISBN. From the entry eat to live, not live to eat
• In other words, we note that the social engineering model of knowledge utilization research is burdened with the outdated maxim of "technology as applied science".2012, S.A. Cropper, Michael C. Jackson, Paul Keys, Operational Research and the Social Sciences, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry social engineering
• It is useful, though, to remember the conclusion of the maxim: we stand on the shoulders of giants to see better and farther than they.2007, C. M. C. Green, Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia, page xv. From the entry stand on the shoulders of giants
• The size of his victory . . . contradicted the maxim of latter-day fellow Californian Leo Durocher, who once said positively: "Nice guys finish last."1956 November 19, “National Affairs: Nice Guy Finishes First”, in Time. From the entry nice guys finish last
• The baby yelled heartily at that event, prompting Grandma Ella van Heemstra to quote the Dutch maxim, “A good cry at the christening lets the devil out!”2001, Barry Paris, Audrey Hepburn. From the entry let the devil out
• Bureaucracy too, in education as elsewhere (perhaps especially in education) was prone to pedantocracy and to slow strangulation in the toils of its own immutable maxims.1980, F[rancis] W[illiam] Garforth, “Conclusion”, in Educative Democracy: John Stuart Mill on Education in Society (University of Hull…. From the entry pedantocracy
• They are chippings and basketings of maxims and quotations, and of anecdotes, often classical, put together inductively, or rather by "simple enumeration" of the pros and cons.1910, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopaedia Britannica (page 627). From the entry basketing

Meaning of maxim

1. noun A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
2. noun A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.

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How do you use maxim in a sentence?

Maxim is used as a noun. For example: “Non sequitur humor is non-Gricean as it intentionally disobeys the maxim of relation.”

What is a short sentence with maxim?

“Taoist medicine follows the maxim of "first do no harm".”

What does maxim mean?

Maxim means a self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.