Example sentences for: mispronounced

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

  • President Clinton deliberately mispronounced it "Boo-trus, Boo-trus," just to mock him, charges former U.N.

  • President Bush purposely mispronounced "Saddam Hussein" to annoy the Iraqi leader, while Iraqi newsreaders retaliated by mispronouncing Bush so that, in Arabic, it meant "nothing."

  • Manufacturers are fond of deforming the spelling of an ordinary word to make it distinctive, for example NU for new, KWIK for quick , or Bonz for bones (unfortunately, this last, a dog food lacking the so-called silent e, is frequently mispronounced).

  • Mispronounced words: schism (as [skizm] rather than [sizm]).

  • When one's name is deliberately or even unconsciously misspelled, or when it is knowingly mispronounced, a person perceives it as a slap at his pride.


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