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malapropism

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noun

  1. the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

Examples

I would think long and hard before assuming that inarticulate speech and a gift for malapropism are indicators of stupidity.

Further malapropisms were to be found last week in Ireland on Sunday.

His verbal miscues and malapropisms are the natural consequence of a man struggling with internal contradictions and a lack of self-knowledge.

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malapropos

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adjective

  1. of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature

adverb

  1. at an inconvenient time

Examples

_malapropos_; for instance, she called out, to a little fat, stupid, roly-poly girl, to whom Miss Benson was busy explaining the meaning of the word quadruped,

Next day, thanks to his histrionic powers and his ingratiating address, he was promoted to the rank of "supernumerary captain's servant" -- a "post which," I give his words, "I flatter myself, was created for me alone, and furnished me with opportunities unequalled for a task in which one word malapropos would have been my destruction.

I ought not to lose an opportunity of refuting an absurd story which has been much circulated, and which is repeated exceedingly malapropos under the article of the “Abbé Gedoyn,” upon whom the writer falls foul with great satisfaction, because in his youth he had been a Jesuit; a transient weakness, of which I know he repented all his life.

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