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- adjective exhibiting
malapropism
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Examples
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The malapropistic "El Presidento" is a nice touch, though.
Week 45: The Poys and the Luggage Douglas Wolk 2007
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The malapropistic "El Presidento" is a nice touch, though.
Archive 2007-03-01 Douglas Wolk 2007
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I was just making a malapropistic link between echelon and eschaton…
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Everyone Wants to Take Us To the Prom 2006
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As Margaret Duckett has pointed out, these two bore interesting resemblances to Mark Twain and Bret Harte.22 A malapropistic mother and her practical daughter supplied heavy-handed comic scenes neither Livy nor Anna Harte could bear them.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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As Margaret Duckett has pointed out, these two bore interesting resemblances to Mark Twain and Bret Harte.22 A malapropistic mother and her practical daughter supplied heavy-handed comic scenes neither Livy nor Anna Harte could bear them.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Expect our frigid nightmare to continue until the 'Shaft decides that scorching summer heat might provide a better backdrop to his cranky, malapropistic wit.
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In the back yard next to mine, young Mateo sometimes raised his voice in malapropistic song.
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Robert A. Fowkes New York University A.Missile-any of Shots by a Poor Marksman Vaguely related to spoonerisms are a number of instances of utterances connected by an unthemely common theme with some juncture, some assonance, a few malapropistic and apropostic features, foul wordplay, and untenable juxtapositions.
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