Looking for sentences and phrases with the word malaprop? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Even as he shouts it, he is grinning, pretty sure it's a malaprop.
Certainly an essential read in an era when the reach of a presidential malaprop cannot be misunderestimated.
It's an eponym named for the addlebrained literary character, Mrs. Malaprop.
Dwight Eisenhower was roundly derided by the liberal intelligentsia as a Mr. Malaprop, a golf-playing, crony-loving dim bulb.
Examples from Classical Literature
Mrs. malaprop herself, in her happiest moments, could not have beaten this inscription.
I saw Mrs. Drew play Mrs. malaprop, and it was a lesson to people who overact.
It is best, as Mrs. malaprop says, to begin with a little aversion.
I'll write a note to Mrs. malaprop, and you shall visit the lady directly.
A quick example of the malaprop would be to use the word 'affect', a force, when it was proper to use the word 'effect', or results.
Every one should be familiar with Miss Languish and Mrs. malaprop.
Catarella, being whatever the Italian counterpart is of a malaprop, who can never manage to get a word or a name correctly.
Which playwright created the character Mrs Malaprop in his play The Rivals?
Malaprop in Sheridan's The Rivals, Ros nevertheless dazzles the reader with word combinations that are unexpected and sometimes absurd.
Perhaps Roche intended to be ironic, although since he is often cited as the model for Richard Brinsley Sheridan's fictional Mrs Malaprop, this proposition seems doubtful.
