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malapropism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | malaprop |
| Type of | misstatement |
Examples of malapropism
malapropism
Clarke's accidental malapropism during yesterday's presentation summed it all up.
From the smh.com.au
Who used to have a field day with George W. and his syntax and malapropism.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
I suggest Count Arthur Strong, whose gift for malapropism would serve the event well.
From the independent.co.uk
I think you're unjustly connecting malapropism and lack of empathy.
From the economist.com
And we might add the malapropism is in turn a subset of Manglish.
From the smh.com.au
Others celebrate with a crackling good malapropism.
From the sacbee.com
Mrs. Millie is the master of the malapropism, to the delight of her students, who get to play teacher and correct her.
From the time.com
Miller has the unique ability to carry off the spontaneous recitation, quoting Shakespeare as easily as recounting a Yogi Berra malapropism.
From the sacbee.com
The humor of Dogberry's character is his frequent use of malapropism, a technique Shakespeare would use again in Elbow from Measure for Measure.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- 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. ...
- The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar sounding one; An instance of this; malaprop
- (malapropistic) exhibiting malapropism
- (Malapropisms) A favorite tool of the Southwestern Humorists, often combined with heavy use of dialect to indicate pretension or stupidity. A famous example is the king's repeated use of "funeral orgies" for "funeral obsequies" in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ...
- Misusing words to create a comic effect or characterize the speaker as being too confused, ignorant, or flustered to use correct diction. Typically, the malapropism involves the confusion of two polysyllabic words that sound somewhat similar but have different meanings. ...
- Is a term used to describe the misuse of stage props with delicious, harmful intent.
- A type of solecism, the mistaken substitution of one word for another that sounds similar, generally with humorous effect, as in "arduous romance" for "ardent romance." The term is named for the character, Mrs. ...
- The usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase; especially the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context (Merriam Webster): "The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder" (Richard ...
