malapropistically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a malapropistic way.
Example Sentences
- "Subterranean descent can land in an underworld, be it Hell or Elysium or the other side of the earth, the Antipodes, which Alice malapropistically calls "the Antipathies"—not so exact an opposite to our side as the Looking-Glass Country, but a topsy-turvydom of sorts like Butler's Erewhon."
- "exhibition / (A) This word has two meanings: a financial allowance or endowment (a term still current in some British universities) and a gift or present. It is also used once malapropistically by Verges to Dogberry mistaking the word for 'commission' (ADO 4.2.5)."
- "The crowd slips from chanting "No Popery," to, malapropistically, "No Property," then Grip the Raven begins chanting "No Popery," and Barnaby Rudge the idiot takes up the cause, as if to say ideology can be easily parroted and is, for all its public claims, idiotic."
Etymology
From malapropistic + -ally.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more malapropistically (comparative)
most malapropistically (superlative)