Words and phrases that have a meaning related to malapropism: (122 results)
Often used in the same context:
malaprop, witticism, spoonerism, epigram, locution, sarcasms, journalese, shtik, mispronunciations, split infinitive, neologism, pronounciation, hyperboles, imprecation, wordplay, jackanapes, doggerel, mangler, phraseology, chiasmus, grammarian, tautologies, grandiloquence, jabberwocky, circumlocution, solecism, punster, logorrhea, puns, diphthongs, monosyllable, phrase, coinages, prolixity, quipster, lexis, panegyric, inanities, gerund, aphorism, smarminess, simile, dissembler, ineloquent, facetiousness, onomatopoeia, putdown, alliteration, crudities, mondegreen, orotund, apercus, raillery, brooklynese, mrs. malaprop, verbosity, colloquialism, inexactitude, misquotation, smarm, metonymy, adjective, bon mot, koans, utterance, non sequitur, wordiness, officiousness, fiddlesticks, pedantry, declarative sentence, pentameter, participle, cusswords, scatology, poesy, anecdotage, lamebrain, dumbness, cantankerousness, subjunctive, hacky, buffoonery, archaisms, italicizing, birdbrained, soliloquies, bons mots, vulgarism, cornpone, gesticulation, metafiction, epithet, quip, platitude, colloquial, past participle, foolery, homophones, ironist, zinger, boor, elision, confusions, daydreaming, deviations, hyperbole, misinterpretation, mismatches, misreading, misspellings, oversimplification, overstatement, abruptness, absences, acerbity, affectation, aftereffect, ameloblastoma, angina, antihistamine
More general:
Also try:misstatement
— Adjectives for malapropism: occasional, typical, systematic, classical, common, apparent, comic
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