How to Use malapropism in a Sentence

malapropism

noun

• Arch-villain Stache (Trey Lyford) is a poet full of malapropisms.
  — Hugh Hunter, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
• David is a well-meaning boob who can’t shoot straight (except by accident, through the seat of his pants) and who talks in greeting-card platitudes and awkward malapropisms.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2016
• This means that her characters often talk in winding syntax replete with malapropisms that would dismay Strunk and White.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 7 June 2017
• Here is the pronunciation guide to avoiding papal malapropisms.
  — Michael Howard, Esquire, 3 Mar. 2014
• Yogi Berra was famous for uttering pithy, off-the-cuff malapropisms, little witticisms that were seemingly contradictory, but also somehow wise.
  — Longreads, 6 June 2017
• Another form of word climbing is mistaking and thereby misusing words owing to their mere sound, and thereby lapsing into malapropism—this to give the impression of cultivation and intellectual penetration.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2017
• By that measure, Mr. Manafort’s sartorial malapropisms were exactly right.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2017