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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:
misstatement
Synonyms:
malaprop
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— Adjectives for malapropism:
occasional,
typical,
systematic,
classical,
common,
apparent,
comic
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