Lexicographical Neighbors of Malapropian
Literary usage of Malapropian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"... which, by-the-bye, now I have read it, seems to be something of a " missile *
in another sense than the malapropian. But Sara is one of the few people ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"His vocabulary was florid and various, and he was fond of displaying it, though
the effect was often malapropian. "There is a throne," he said, ..."
3. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... Day celebrations the famous malapropian toast was seriously given in honor of
the newly elected governor: -Governor Brooks—May the mantelpiece of Caleb ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"... her messengers " run of errands," and wives are " aggravated " by their
husbands ; sometimes they are purely malapropian and absurd, as in the sentence, ..."
5. The American Bibliopolist (1875)
"Infallible, of course, is what he means to say. I had to laugh at finding the
identical malapropian word put into a clown's mouth by ..."
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