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malaprop::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | malapropism |
| Type of | misstatement |
Examples of malaprop
malaprop
The champ is a malaprop-spouting monster who terrorizes his misfit waitstaff.
From the thestate.com
The fact that it was a groundless numerical malaprop seemed irrelevant.
From the sacbee.com
Voters were also turned off by Clark's uncertain leadership and his image as a malaprop-spouting bumbler.
From the time.com
If Kowalczyk spots the phrase introducing a question as he's editing, he considers it a malaprop and rewords it.
From the signonsandiego.com
Let's all give a collective cross of the fingers that a mistranslated malaprop won't lead to an international incident.
From the newsobserver.com
It encouraged a malaprop society.
From the theatlantic.com
The TV movie will work better than the book, because, except in the implausibly reconstructed dialogue, it will lack the print version's off-key, malaprop prose.
From the theatlantic.com
He is just as tight with Murray and the recent struggles are just blips for a team that, to quote a favorite Carlyle malaprop, is undergoing a baptismal of fire.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
More of the truth about Samuel Goldwyn was revealed by his actual appearance than by his popular image as the archetypal movie mogul-ignorant, tyrannical, malaprop-spewing.
From the time.com
- Malapropism: the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
- A malapropism (also called a Dogberryism or acyrologia) is the substitution of a word for a word with a similar sound, in which the resulting phrase makes no sense but often creates a comic effect. ...
- (Malaprops) using one word in place of another that sounds like it but has a different meaning; often humorous.
