(n.) A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
Example Sentences:
(1) My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story, and was given slightly to malapropisms.
(2) Her Mrs Malaprop in Belgrade Theatre's touring production of Sheridan's The Rivals was hailed as "the play's vociferous focal point".
(3) In some patients, the combinative ambiguity or malapropism expresses the fear of reprisal through the transformation into a self-inflicted injury.
(4) The point is malapropisms and mispronunciations are fairly common.
Misnomer
Definition:
(n.) The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.
(v. t.) To misname.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gonzalez acknowledged that the term "Russian mafia" was something of a misnomer since the criminal groups sometimes involved Ukrainians, Georgians, Belarussians and Chechens.
(2) The term "threatened abortion" is often a misnomer, for the fate of the pregnancy is decided when bleeding occurs.
(3) Perhaps due to the misnomer, annular or honeycomblike subepithelial opacities have come to be regarded as Reis-Bücklers' dystrophy.
(4) Because the Living Will advances the concept of negative euthanasia--an ethical, legal, and political misnomer--and abets the effort to legalize positive or direct euthanasia, it should not be given legal recognition.
(5) As the acrosyringium does not take part in formation of a dyshidrotic vesicle, the term "dyshidrosis" has to be regarded as a misnomer.
(6) Thus, so-called "nonspecific binding" was unmasked as a misnomer, and the expression "correction for trapping" was proposed as a substitute.
(7) The misnomer was coined by white explorers who rediscovered the ruins in 1860 and reasoned that the spectacular place must have been built for a king.
(8) ;Pseudomyxoma peritonei' is a misnomer and is caused by dissemination of a mucinous cystadenocarcinoma within the peritoneal cavity.
(9) It also shows that the term anesthesia is a misnomer for this modality, and that it should be called acupuncture analgesia.
(10) In these patients, EL seems to be a misnomer since the findings are suggestive of acute myeloblastic leukemia with secondary erythroid and granulocytic hyperplasia.
(11) Analysis : HS3 is a curious misnomer – at least when compared to HS2.
(12) The term "nasal glioma" is a confusing misnomer as it implies a neoplastic condition with malignant potential, which it is not.
(13) George suggests that “waste” is actually a misnomer since human faeces is an inexhaustible source of valuable nutrients.
(14) The "post-lunch dip" is a common behavioral phenomenon, though perhaps a misnomer.
(15) This so-called lupus anticoagulant was originally described in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus but is a misnomer as it is more frequently encountered in patients without lupus.
(16) In view of the increasing number of reports of this disease from other parts of Africa and the rest of the world, one wonders whether North American blastomycosis is not a misnomer.
(17) But critics have warned that the plans are incoherent and are being driven by private housebuilders, and that Osborne’s garden city label is a misnomer.
(18) To call the cartels “narcos”, as almost all media in the US and Mexico do, is a misnomer.
(19) Leaving aside for a second the misnomer “nontraditional” (cough, since the dawn of time, cough), it turns out Mizulina may have been right: for the gays are running riot.
(20) It was suggested that the term "nonspecific" vaginitis is a misnomer and is used to conceal ignorance.