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- adjective Of or pertaining to
malapropisms .
Etymologies
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malapropism and -ic.
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Examples
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Four years later Clarice Bean, That's Me – the first of Child's tales of malapropic Clarice and her rumpled, bohemian family – was published.
A life in books: Lauren Child Sarah Crown 2010
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Like Shakespeare's malapropic Dogberry, O'Hanlon is "too cunning to be understood."
unknown title 2009
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