Example sentences for: malaprop

How can you use “malaprop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Malaprop in Mexico,” by Lysander Kemp [XV,4].

  • Other examples include to braille , to biro , to grangerize , to malaprop , to spoonerize , and to morse .

  • Mrs. Malaprop is so English that I thought her “nice derangement of epitaphs” was a glory peculiar to our language.

  • As Lysander Kemp reminded us in Mrs. Malaprop in Mexico [XV,4], other tongues have their slips, as well.

  • Sometimes the shift comes about through the omission of a word: in a recollection entitled Master Malaprop [VII,2], James Higgins describes a newspaper editor who made such proclamations as A hand in the bush is worth two .


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