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malapropian

malapropian adjective: malapropic.

Adjective

malapropian (comparative more malapropian, superlative most malapropian)

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

Synonyms of malapropian

Forms of malapropian

comparativemore malapropian
superlativemost malapropian

Questions about malapropian

What does malapropian mean?
Malapropian means malapropic.
What part of speech is malapropian?
Malapropian is an adjective.

Words near malapropian in the dictionary

  1. malappropriating
  2. malappropriation
  3. malappropriations
  4. Malappuram
  5. malaprop
  6. malapropian
  7. malapropic
  8. malapropish
  9. malapropism
  10. malapropisms
  11. malapropist

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