Crossword-Solution: MALAPROP
We have 23 clues for the answer “MALAPROP”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Misused word | 1 answer |
| Word mix-up | 1 answer |
| Word mangler | 1 answer |
| Sheridan's misspeaking Mrs. | 1 answer |
| Sheridan's Mrs. | 1 answer |
| She says, "As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile." | 1 answer |
| She blundered in "The Rivals." | 1 answer |
| Noted word scrambler | 1 answer |
| Mrs. known for misspeaking | 1 answer |
| Mrs. ___ (character in a 1775 play known for poor but amusing word choice) | 1 answer |
| Mrs ___, Sheridan character using words incorrectly | 1 answer |
| Linguistic fumbler | 1 answer |
| Language blooper | 1 answer |
| In fiction, diction was her affliction | 1 answer |
| Famous word butcher | 1 answer |
| Famous Mrs. | 1 answer |
| Butcherer of words | 1 answer |
| "Dance a flamingo," e.g. | 1 answer |
| Character in "The Rivals" | 2 answers |
| Fictional Mrs. | 2 answers |
| The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one | 2 answers |
| Sheridan character | 2 answers |
| Mrs. ___. | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MALAPROP (5)
You call her 'Isoud'?” That pleased Missy; and, despite her agitation over this malaprop theme, she couldn't resist the impulse to air her lately acquired learning.
Malaprop would say, at the sight, and a push from the white spectre brought the unfortunate man to the ground, when away rode the gallant quartermaster with his sacks of flour, which, at length bursting, made a ludicrous spectacle of man and horse.
Malaprop's phrase, be, 'like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once.' The Author, as he is unconscious of anything in the work itself (except perhaps its frivolity) which prevents its finding an acknowledged father, leaves it to the candour of the public to choose among the many circumstances peculiar to different situations in life such as may induce him to suppress his name on the present occasion.
Malaprop, for applying that same epithet on hearsay to Maurice.’ This laugh made Gillian feel more at home with her aunt, and they went up happily together for the introduction to the lumber-room, not a very spacious place, and with a window leading out to the leads.
Malaprop, that they who are so fond of handling the leaves will long for the fruit at last." Sir Anthony was no doubt right.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1949–2021).