malaprop

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Examples

• Have you heard the speculation, The rumor now in circulation: Perry runs with Newt this Fall Malaprop meets know-it-all.

• "A regular Mrs. Malaprop," Jack said, while Howard suggested that they leave before she came home.

• A total want of ordinary thought and observation, is the general cause of the Malaprop failing.

• Mrs. Malaprop argues that married men ought to give up their clubs, 'because Hercules gave up his when he got spliced!'

• There was certainly nothing of the Cherry and Honeycomb about her when older; but she was an admirable Mrs. Malaprop.

• She was the ideal Mrs. Malaprop, and she surpassed all competitors in the character of Mrs. Hardcastle.