How To Use Malaprop In A Sentence
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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
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_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
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Of these, errors in sound, usually called malapropisms, are probably the best known.
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The funniest malapropisms and turns of phrase tend to be unintentional bloopers.
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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
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Apparently Fowler considered this to be a malapropism as they sounded similar.
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He was funny, witty, and his malaprops were almost as legendary as his Yankee teammate Yogi Berra's.
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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
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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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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.
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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.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The effect of a malapropism is usually humorous, but it can highlight quite profound connections between things.
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Is that malapropos statement relevant?
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I do appreciate cultural artifacts, however, my appreciation includes a recognition of irony, and I mean irony in its strictest sense, not as a malapropism for sarcasm or smug insincerity.
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He was funny, witty, and his malaprops were almost as legendary as his Yankee teammate Yogi Berra's.
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Major-General William Borthwick maki-e malapropisms malhavelins
The Joy of Crockford's Clerical Directory
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All the following are 100% genuine malapropisms, as said by R and L at various times in my hearing.
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This is a garden-variety malapropism, substituting compulsion for the similar-sounding word compunction, though the meanings are radically different.
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It's not the accent so much as the malapropisms that set them apart.
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I even found the book in a bohemian bookstore called Malaprops in Asheville, N.C. where I stood agog for a solid forty five minutes before heading to the checkout counter.
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Washington particularly regretted what he called the “extreme malapropos” effect on Virginia, where the bad news from New Hampshire arrived in March just as delegates to the state ratifying convention were being chosen.
Ratification
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Van Wyk's narrator, a harum-scarum, hard-drinking journalist called Scara Nhlabatsi, relishes all manner of rude jokes, bawdy abuse, malapropisms and puns and provides a slew of images of the vulgar excess of power.
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Along with this eggcorn came a classical malapropism as well.
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Alas, i still don't know how anyone can vote for that doddering old malapropist ....
Poll: Obama Narrowly Ahead In Virginia
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This is simultaneously a spelling error and a malapropism.
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Further malapropisms were to be found last week in Ireland on Sunday.
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This is simultaneously a spelling error and a malapropism.
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His nervousness escalated into an avalanche of malapropisms.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the famed producer (and malapropist) Samuel Goldwyn once told me, "Nothing ever really changes -- just the numbers.
Peter Bart: Hollywood: Not an Anachronism
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Even if you're a Republican, you have to admit it was all too easy for all of us to "feel smart" in contrast with the fearless malapropist George W. Bush.
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Finally, it's also something like a malapropism, where a word is mistakenly substituted for one of similar sound shape.
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Often a media gaffe is not an isolated malapropism but a reflection of an executive's whole attitude.
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Most scholars, however, would probably regard the inclusion of Mormon works on this page (The Book of Mormon, The Pearl of Great Price, and The Doctrine and Covenants) as malapropos.
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Finally, it's also something like a malapropism, where a word is mistakenly substituted for one of similar sound shape.
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The explanation behind House File 2028 says it would correct a "malapropism" in the legal description.
DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS
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And it features the kind of malapropism-prone character who says “Toblerone” when he means “testosterone.”
London Theater Journal: Hitting Bottom - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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For example, bad malapropisms are not only excused, but also quite plainly understood.
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Now Mr. Cohen has a feature-length film with a title as malapropos as Borat's sendup of Kazakhstan.
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Such malapropos wise cracks are driven home with a relentlessly upbeat soundtrack which serenades scenes of human tragedy with bouncy, Disneyesque melodies.
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When he used clichés or malapropisms, he did so for comic effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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But aside from the malaprops, whether his or someone else's attributed to him, Yogi's language always has been clean.
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I decided against a bottle of wine as Mother had already drained her Kir with some speed and had begun to confuse her spoonerisms with her malapropisms.
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As soon as the man of genius has made a new application of any word in the language, copyists are not wanting to apply it, very malapropos, in twenty places, without giving the inventor any credit.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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For example, bad malapropisms are not only excused, but also quite plainly understood.
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The funniest malapropisms and turns of phrase tend to be unintentional bloopers.
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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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This is simultaneously a spelling error and a malapropism.
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At his Politics and Eggs speech, Mr. Perry noted that the "live free or die" state was sure "remindful of a little place down in Texas called the Alamo," using a real word - "remindful" - that sounded an awful lot like one of the malaproprisms that sometimes peppered Mr. Bush's remarks.
NYT > Home Page
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Like Clark Coolidge, whose verve depends on malapropism, neologism, and ricochet, Roberts bounces back and forth within a multivalent vocabulary.
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But somewhere along the way, Texans, known for malapropisms and creative spellings, (heck, the name of the state is even a refashioning of a Caddoan word, Tejas, which means friends) took out the extra "i" and decided to call it pimento.
Archive 2007-02-01
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His malapropisms and good old boy manner give him the air of a simpleton, and yet he's not.
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This old geezer is a walking, talking ball of contradictions, lies, malaprops and scary, “Dr. Strangelove” type personalities.
The Early Word: The War, at Home and Abroad - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Each day has a statement containing spoonerisms, malapropisms, contradictions, strange and unrelated facts, and misuse of words.
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Daley's not even as entertaining as his father, Richard J. Daley, whose speech impediments churned out some of the most memorable malapropisms in American history: "He's a man of great statue" and "The policeman isn't here to create disorder, he's here to preserve dis order" (dis in the second instance is Chicagoese for "this".)
Ray Hanania: Leno Causes Seismic Shift in Delicate Balance Between Husbands and Wives Across America
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It's not the accent so much as the malapropisms that set them apart.
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First of all, totally malapropos usage of the Public Enemy lyric quote.
First Negative Dark Knight Review - And Why It's Bullsh*t « FirstShowing.net
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Even the most mindful, meticulous, and maniacal systems administrator cannot prevent the inevitable: Hardware fails, and typically at the most malapropos time.
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Often a media gaffe is not an isolated malapropism but a reflection of an executive's whole attitude.
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It's even easier to find uncontroversial typos, grammatical errors, malapropisms and other infelicities in unedited texts written by less skilled writers, or by writers in a hurry.
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FSJ's malapropos concerning geography and language is so American!
Denton re-dentons -- again!
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Malapropisms and spoonerisms add colour to language.
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It's an eponym named for the addlebrained literary character, Mrs. Malaprop.
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But aside from the malaprops, whether his or someone else's attributed to him, Yogi's language always has been clean.
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‘America’ remains a malaprop incapable of dissevering its rhetorical trusses to colonial discourse.
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Their most striking peculiarity was, as Mrs. Malaprop would say, "his numerousness.
Janey Canuck in the West
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Here is a list of student malapropisms which I have collected since I began teaching - each represents an actual student's statement!
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For author Mickey Mahaffey, who will launch the national tour for his stunning debut memoir and travelogue WHISPERS OF MY BLOOD at Asheville's Malaprops Bookstore on September 10th, walking becomes an act of redemption from the tourist meccas of the Great Smoky Mountains to Mexico's famed Copper Canyon.
Jeff Biggers: Walk, Pray, Love: New Travelogue Explores the Redemptive Power of Walking: Interview with Author Mickey Mahaffey
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Many discoveries made long time ago seemed malapropos and were forgotten.
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I would think long and hard before assuming that inarticulate speech and a gift for malapropism are indicators of stupidity.
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Two: a few days ago was the first anniversary of linguist Geoff Pullum's coining of the term 'eggcorns', a particular kind of malapropism that appears linguistically significant because it involves a switch to a wrong, but logical, alternative that is rapidly and widely assimilated into general language.
Archive 2004-09-01
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The effect of a malapropism is usually humorous, but it can highlight quite profound connections between things.
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I have every confidence that Israel's economy would rank far higher than 20th in your malapropos IMD "stress test" were it not for the war - now in its seventh decade.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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There are numerous pun formats including knock-knock jokes and the beloved malapropisms, the latter immortalized in the character of Mrs. Malaprop (from the French mal à propos, meaning inappropriate) in Richard Sheridan's 1755 comedy The Rivals.
Grande Prairie Daily Herald Tribune
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Most likely, the term sheath is just another case of your typical Texan malapropism.
Texas sheet cake for a birthday | Homesick Texan
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They speak in spoonerisms and malapropisms and put forward bizarre concepts and beliefs.
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They speak in spoonerisms and malapropisms and put forward bizarre concepts and beliefs.
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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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Further malapropisms were to be found last week in Ireland on Sunday.
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The mishearing of a word or phrase, an aural malapropism, is referred to as a mondegreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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I decided against a bottle of wine as Mother had already drained her Kir with some speed and had begun to confuse her spoonerisms with her malapropisms.
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The funniest malapropisms and turns of phrase tend to be unintentional bloopers.
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Treason, it seems, is still considered malapropos by some Democrats.
Think Progress » Right Wing Swiftboating Retired Generals: ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Encouraging the Enemy to Fight On’
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Non sequiturs, tautologies, obiter dicta, wild generalizations, malapropisms and clichés abound.
The Times Literary Supplement
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More than most linguistic modes, such as paronomasia and malapropism, quasi malediction has diametric force.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
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Eagerly awaiting the Allen malaprop moment: "A rose between a towelhead and a dyke" perhaps?
Thompson Co-Chairs Include George Allen ��� And Dick Cheney's Daughter
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And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us.
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And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us.
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Here is a list of student malapropisms which I have collected since I began teaching - each represents an actual student's statement!
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While Goody did not win Big Brother 3, she was in the house long enough for her gobby nature and malapropisms to generate public affection.
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Because, as Mr. DeVito makes abundantly clear, there are and always have been two Yogi Berras: 1) the public celebrity — a goofy, good-natured, strange-looking (sportswriters at the time used far-worse adjectives), malaprop-spewing simpleton from the Italian slums of St. Louis and 2) the real person behind the public persona, a far more complex and intelligent character.
The Man Behind the Malaprop
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she answered malapropos
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Apparently Fowler considered this to be a malapropism as they sounded similar.
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It wears thin after a while, but the pace is kept up by Vaguen's malaprops, slightly off analogies and clever reworking of typical pop psychology dogma.
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All the following are 100% genuine malapropisms, as said by R and L at various times in my hearing.
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His dotty malapropisms often misrepresent him as a man closer to senility than sense but, at 69, he is still sharp enough to be able to match Fergie in the mental boxing ring.
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Mr. STARR: It's called a malapropism, John used to say.
Ringo Starr: The Drums Are Where The Soul Is
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They speak in spoonerisms and malapropisms and put forward bizarre concepts and beliefs.
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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.
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Iz lik malapropz, sayin on fing meenz novver, iz alwaes problums ai finks, caz U getz used tu talkin like dat an den furgetz when talktalktalk tu ovver peepz.
Add a little gel… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Did you ever wonder where the word malapropism came from?
Bock The Robber
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Of these, errors in sound, usually called malapropisms, are probably the best known.
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I decided against a bottle of wine as Mother had already drained her Kir with some speed and had begun to confuse her spoonerisms with her malapropisms.
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Each day has a statement containing spoonerisms, malapropisms, contradictions, strange and unrelated facts, and misuse of words.
