malapropisticallyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

malapropistically (not generally comparable, comparative more malapropistically, superlative most malapropistically)

1. In a malapropistic way.
   • 1994, Bloom, Harold, Classic Fantasy Writers‎^[1], Chelsea House, →ISBN, retrieved 2023-05-02, page 45:

     Subterranean descent can land in an underworld, be it Hell or Elysium or the other side of the earth, the Antipodes, which Alice malapropistically calls "the Antipathies"—not so exact an opposite to our side as the Looking-Glass Country, but a topsy-turvydom of sorts like Butler's Erewhon.

   • 2015, Thomas, Vivian, Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language: A Dictionary‎^[2], Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, retrieved 2023-05-02:

     exhibition / (A) This word has two meanings: a financial allowance or endowment (a term still current in some British universities) and a gift or present. It is also used once malapropistically by Verges to Dogberry mistaking the word for 'commission' (ADO 4.2.5).

   • 2019, Birns, Nicholas, The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary Space‎^[3], Lexington Books, →ISBN, retrieved 2023-05-02, page 178:

     The crowd slips from chanting "No Popery," to, malapropistically, "No Property," then Grip the Raven begins chanting "No Popery," and Barnaby Rudge the idiot takes up the cause, as if to say ideology can be easily parroted and is, for all its public claims, idiotic.