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- not comparableexhibiting malapropism
In the little town of Apogee, he befriends the malapropistic auto mechanic Stiff Major and his holistic hippie wife, Ursula, as well as a revolution-happy country-punk band called the Radniks (say it out loud), and puts his knowledge to work in the real world for the first time.
2009 July 26, Douglas Wolk, “Shades of Meaning”, in New York TimesSynonyms: catachrestic, catachrestical, malapropian, malapropic
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adjectiveexhibiting malapropism
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