malaprop
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- n the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
- But less than four months later, the sometimes goofy, malaprop-prone Republican devastated the Democrats.
- There is a narrative of sorts that emerges from Butterfly's solipsistic musing, but the book's greatest triumph is her voice, a pitch-perfect mixture of malaprop subcontinental .
- Personality (in his case, that of a malaprop with a Spanish accent) has paid Cugat well.