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Malaprop, Mrs.
- A character in The Rivals, an English play from the late eighteenth century by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Mrs. Malaprop constantly mixes up words that sound similar, declaring, for instance, “He is the very pineapple of politeness,” when she means pinnacle .
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Notes
Today, any comic jumbling of words like those produced by Mrs. Malaprop is called a malapropism .
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Example Sentences
They are content, following the example of Mrs Malaprop, that the sound shall serve just as well as the sense.
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