mislocution

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ locution.

Noun

mislocution (countable and uncountable, plural mislocutions)

1. incorrect locution
   • 2009 July 26, “Fiction Chronicle”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Though distinctly restrained, Sethi’s prose evokes the comic mislocutions of Jonathan Safran Foer and the vertiginous mania of Zadie Smith.