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▸ adjective:  malapropic

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apothegmic, apotelesmatical, Panglossian, paradoxal, philopolemical, paradoxic, aporematic, parodical, paradoxial, demagogical, more...

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apothegmic, apotelesmatical, Panglossian, paradoxal, philopolemical, paradoxic, aporematic, parodical, paradoxial, demagogical, more...



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