malapropism

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I guess these people missed the last 28 years, during which one bumbling, invincibly ignorant, malapropism-spewing authoritarian after another was sworn in as president after defeating candidates who could speak intelligently, in complete sentences, about important subjects.

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  1. noun Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.
  2. noun An example of such misuse.

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  • No more complaining from me: you can now get most of Section One in PDF format, complete with accompanying ads for that authentic feel. follows up on a recent episode at the Tribune: in a report, political correspondent Mark Silva decided to clean up a presidential malapropism.
  • Well, we here at the Vail Valley Partnership think it's all about three things - education, information and networkification (malapropism a la Bush). —  Vail Daily - Top Stories
  • However, it†™ s increasingly used as an adjective in order to sell product to that specific niche, again a kind of marketing malapropism. —  GameSetWatch
  • Someday it may take its place in our language alongside malapropism and Bushism. —  The Blue Voice
  • What this new, untraditional use of the term lacks in venom, it more than makes up for in malapropism, for there is nothing remotely socialist to Henry Paulson's "no banker left behind" bail-out strategy, or to Ben Bernanke's "buy one - get one free" deal on the US Dollar —  Energy Bulletin -
 

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/ˈmæləprɑpɪzm/
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