"malapropistically" meaning in English

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Adverb

Forms: more malapropistically [comparative], most malapropistically [superlative]
Etymology: From malapropistic + -ally. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|malapropistic|ally}} malapropistic + -ally Head templates: {{en-adv|-|more}} malapropistically (not generally comparable, comparative more malapropistically, superlative most malapropistically)
  1. In a malapropistic way. Tags: not-comparable, usually
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          "ref": "2015, Vivian Thomas, Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language: A Dictionary, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, retrieved 2023-05-02:",
          "text": "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).",
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          "text": "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.",
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