malapropistic

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malapropistic (not comparable)

  1. exhibiting malapropism
    • 2009 July 26, Douglas Wolk, “Shades of Meaning”, in New York Times[1]:
      In the little town of Apogee, he befriends the malapropistic auto mechanic Stiff Major and his holistic hippie wife, Ursula, as well as a revolution-happy country-punk band called the Radniks (say it out loud), and puts his knowledge to work in the real world for the first time.

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