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Malapropos
Malapropos Mal*ap"ro*pos`, a. & adv. [F. mal [`a] propos; mal evil + [`a] propos to the purpose.] Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.

Meaning of Malaprop from wikipedia

- A malapropism (/ˈmæləprɒpɪzəm/; also called a malaprop, acyrologia or Dogberryism) is the incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound...
- soldier in spite of the objections of her guardian, Mrs. Malaprop, a moralistic widow. Mrs. Malaprop is the chief comic figure of the play, thanks to her...
- born in Boston, M****achusetts. He was often referred to as "The Master of Malaprop". Crosby was born and was raised in Dorchester, Boston on September 15...
- Prunella Scales as Mapp and McEwan as Lucia. In 1983, McEwan pla**** Mrs Malaprop in a production of Sheridan's The Rivals at the National Theatre by Peter...
- They Made Me a Criminal is a 1939 American crime-drama film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and The Dead End Kids...
- Shakespeare Company production of The Provoked Wife. In 2022 she pla**** Mrs Malaprop in the Royal National Theatre's production of Jack Absolute Flies Again...
- sometimes seen in print, it is incorrect to refer to this rig by the modern malaprop of a cutter ketch. In New England in the 1600s, the ketch was a small coastal...
- right parenthesis. It is not uncommon to find the band referred to by the malaprop "DEIBC." More recent releases have doubled the upright bar of the B, resulting...
- musical at Watford Palace Theatre and Octagon Theatre Bolton (2017) Mrs Malaprop in "The Rivals" at the Watermill Theatre in Bagnor, Newbury (2018) Charles...
- posterity ever done for us?". Roche may have been Sheridan's model for Mrs Malaprop. The derivation of "bull" in this sense is unclear. It may be related to...