Crossword-Solution: MALAPROPISM 11 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Malapropism n. A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.

We have 9 clues for the answer “MALAPROPISM”

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PARTIAL POST 1 answer
The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one 2 answers
Hibernicism 6 answers
amphigory 6 answers
FALSE name 11 answers
Irish bull 12 answers
Practical joke 12 answers
BARBARISM 17 answers
Howler 22 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MALAPROPISM (2)

Allegory--I mean _Anax andron_ on banks of Nile! Good--and not a Malapropism, whatever WOLSELEY may say.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 17, 1892 Various 2005
Ellen Smith, I want you to say the first verse of Wordsworth's _Ode to the Imitations of Immorality_." "P-Please, sir," tittered Gladys, "the inspector's laughin' like onything!" I laughed immoderately, but it wasn't at Janet's malapropism that I laughed so much.
A Dominie Dismissed Alexander Sutherland Neill 2018

Quotes with MALAPROPISM (1)

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.
William S. Wilson Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (1987).