malaprop

How To Use malaprop In A Sentence

• a type of slip of the ear in which people mishear a word and mispronounce it, then insist that the malapropism is correct. Eggcorns: Folk Etymology Creating New Meanings Every Day
• _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, Ruth
• Of these, errors in sound, usually called malapropisms, are probably the best known.
• The funniest malapropisms and turns of phrase tend to be unintentional bloopers.
• It would appear that the recession — or “the reception” as my malapropism-prone pal Milly De Cabrol, the interior-decorating genius, keeps calling it — has increased, rather than decreased, the lemminglike stampede into the World of Fashion. The Blond and the Short of It: Rachel Zoe Poaches My Fashion Week Klieg Lights
• Apparently Fowler considered this to be a malapropism as they sounded similar.
• He was funny, witty, and his malaprops were almost as legendary as his Yankee teammate Yogi Berra's.
• 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. Traffics and Discoveries
• His verbal miscues and malapropisms are the natural consequence of a man struggling with internal contradictions and a lack of self-knowledge.
• At a White House ceremony where he signed the $417 billion defense spending bill for the 2005 fiscal year, Bush uttered another of his celebrated malapropisms.