12 example sentences using malapropism.
Malapropism used in a sentence
Malapropism in a sentence as a noun
But only one of them is known for malapropisms: Yogi Berra.
I've built PCs with AMD before and am a big fan, but clearly going full tech-malapropism
"Bold" is the malapropism, not bald, which is the original term.
"**** two births with one stone" is the most unfortunate malapropism I've ever seen
"Barely eek out a living" is my favorite malapropism of 2015.
One of my pet peeves is people who say "reign him in," a malapropism seen with increasing frequency where "rein him in" is what is actually meant.
And a "Quay Valley" is some sort of malapropism, especially in geographic context.
I see what the GP is talking about though, and would probably explain it as "fight" being used as a malapropism, not as a rallying ethic.
It probably did that even if you wrote a comment saying something like:"I could not care less" is a malapropism we should strive to avoid.
There should be a literary term for cases where a typo or malapropism is as incredibly apt as "Securicide.
I get annoyed with the buzz and malapropism just as much as the next guy, but like it or not, cloud computing is a major global phenomenon.
Technically what you did there is called a malapropism, where two similar sounding words are misused because the alternative wording could make sense as well.
Malapropism definitions
the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
See also: malaprop