malapropian

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malapropian (comparative more malapropian, superlative most malapropian)

  1. malapropic
    • 1934, The English Journal, volume 23, page 571:
      In the first place, with malapropian ineptness he confused "scrupulous" with its opposite, "unscrupulous."

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