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- mispronunciation
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- incorrect pronunciation related words >
- Irish bull,
- anacoluthon,
- bull,
- cacoepy,
- cacology,
- catachresis,
- corruption,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- gammacism,
- grammatical error,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- lambdacism,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- marrowsky,
- missaying,
- misspeaking,
- misusage,
- mytacism,
- paralambdacism,
- pararhotacism,
- rhotacism,
- solecism,
- spoonerism
- palindrome
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- a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- anastrophe,
- calembour,
- chiasmus,
- corruption,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hysteron proteron,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- missaying,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- spoonerism,
- synchysis,
- tmesis,
- wordplay
- acrostic
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- verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acronym,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- avyayibhava,
- back formation,
- calembour,
- clipped word,
- compound,
- conjugate,
- construction,
- corruption,
- dvandva,
- dvigu,
- endocentric compound,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exocentric compound,
- formation,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- paronym,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- spoonerism,
- tatpurusha,
- word form,
- wordplay
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- be merry with,
- calembour,
- corruption,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- fleer at,
- fun,
- gibe at,
- jape,
- jest,
- jeu de mots,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- mock,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- poke fun at,
- pun,
- punning,
- quip,
- ridicule,
- scintillate,
- scoff at,
- sparkle,
- spoonerism,
- utter a mot,
- wisecrack,
- wordplay
- Irish bull,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- anacoluthon,
- antiphrasis,
- barbarism,
- befoulment,
- bull,
- catachresis,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- corruption,
- debasement,
- defalcation,
- defilement,
- desecration,
- diversion,
- embezzlement,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- fouling,
- grammatical error,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- infelicity,
- maladministration,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- malfeasance,
- malpractice,
- malversation,
- marrowsky,
- misapplication,
- misappropriation,
- misconduct,
- misconstruction,
- misemployment,
- misfeasance,
- mishandling,
- mismanagement,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misuse,
- peculation,
- perversion,
- pilfering,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- profanation,
- prostitution,
- solecism,
- spoonerism,
- ungrammaticism,
- violation
- spoonerism
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- transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words related words >
- Irish bull,
- abuse of terms,
- acronym,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anacoluthon,
- anagram,
- avyayibhava,
- back formation,
- bull,
- calembour,
- catachresis,
- clipped word,
- compound,
- conjugate,
- construction,
- corruption,
- dvandva,
- dvigu,
- endocentric compound,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exocentric compound,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- formation,
- grammatical error,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- marrowsky,
- metagram,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- paronym,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- solecism,
- tatpurusha,
- word form,
- wordplay
- pun
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- a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
- make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning" related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliterate,
- alliteration,
- ambiguity,
- amphibologism,
- amphibology,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- assonance,
- assonate,
- be merry with,
- calembour,
- chime,
- clink,
- corruption,
- counterword,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- double entendre,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- fleer at,
- fun,
- gibe at,
- jape,
- jest,
- jeu de mots,
- jingle,
- joke,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- mock,
- near rhyme,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- play on words,
- poke fun at,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- punning,
- quip,
- rhyme,
- ridicule,
- scintillate,
- scoff at,
- slant rhyme,
- sparkle,
- spoonerism,
- squinting construction,
- utter a mot,
- weasel word,
- wisecrack,
- wordplay
- malapropism
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- the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar related words >
- Irish bull,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- anagram,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- barbarism,
- bull,
- calembour,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- conversion,
- corruption,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exclamation,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- gemination,
- grammatical error,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- infelicity,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jeu de mots,
- litotes,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malaprop,
- marrowsky,
- meiosis,
- metagram,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- onomatopoeia,
- oxymoron,
- palindrome,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- play on words,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- pun,
- punning,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- solecism,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- ungrammaticism,
- wordplay,
- zeugma
- Irish bull,
- anachronism,
- anacoluthon,
- antiphrasis,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- bad case,
- barbarism,
- begging the question,
- bloomer,
- blooper,
- blunder,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- boob,
- botch,
- breach,
- break,
- bull,
- bungle,
- catachresis,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- corruption,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- empty words,
- error,
- fallacy,
- fault,
- faux pas,
- flub,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- formal fallacy,
- fumble,
- gaffe,
- gaucherie,
- grammatical error,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- hysteron proteron,
- impropriety,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- indecorum,
- indiscretion,
- infelicity,
- insincere argument,
- lapse,
- logical fallacy,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- marrowsky,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- mistake,
- misusage,
- moonshine,
- non sequitur,
- paralogism,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- pseudosyllogism,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- spoonerism,
- stupidity,
- ungrammaticism,
- verbal fallacy,
- vernacularism,
- violation,
- vulgarism,
- weak point
- Gothicism,
- Irish bull,
- Neanderthalism,
- age of ignorance,
- animality,
- antiphrasis,
- bad taste,
- barbarity,
- barbarousness,
- benightedness,
- benightment,
- bestiality,
- bombasticness,
- brutality,
- brutishness,
- cacology,
- cacophony,
- clumsiness,
- coarseness,
- colloquialism,
- corruption,
- crudeness,
- cumbrousness,
- dark,
- dark age,
- darkness,
- dysphemism,
- error,
- foreignism,
- gracelessness,
- grossness,
- harshness,
- heathenism,
- heaviness,
- ill breeding,
- ill-balanced sentences,
- impoliteness,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- incivility,
- inconcinnity,
- incorrectness,
- indecorousness,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- infelicity,
- lack of finish,
- lack of polish,
- lapse,
- leadenness,
- localism,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- misconstruction,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- neologism,
- paganism,
- philistinism,
- pompousness,
- ponderousness,
- poor diction,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- savagery,
- savagism,
- sesquipedalianism,
- sesquipedality,
- shibboleth,
- slang,
- slip,
- slipshod construction,
- solecism,
- spoonerism,
- stiltedness,
- taboo word,
- tastelessness,
- troglodytism,
- turgidity,
- uncivilizedness,
- uncouthness,
- uncultivatedness,
- uncultivation,
- unculturedness,
- unenlightenment,
- uneuphoniousness,
- ungracefulness,
- ungrammaticism,
- unrefinement,
- unseemliness,
- unwieldiness,
- vernacularism,
- vulgarism,
- vulgarity,
- wildness
- misconstruction
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- an ungrammatical constituent related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abuse of terms,
- antiphrasis,
- barbarism,
- catachresis,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- contorting,
- corruption,
- defectiveness,
- delusion,
- deviancy,
- distortion,
- eisegesis,
- equivocation,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- error in judgment,
- exaggeration,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falseness,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- illusion,
- infelicity,
- injudiciousness,
- malapropism,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- misapplication,
- misappreciation,
- misapprehension,
- miscalculation,
- miscitation,
- miscoloring,
- miscomputation,
- misconception,
- misconjecture,
- misdirection,
- misdoing,
- misestimation,
- misevaluation,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misfeasance,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misrepresentation,
- missaying,
- misstatement,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- misvaluation,
- peccancy,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- poor judgment,
- prevarication,
- self-contradiction,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- skewed judgment,
- slanting,
- solecism,
- squeezing,
- straining,
- torturing,
- twisting,
- ungrammaticism,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- wrenching,
- wrong,
- wrong construction,
- wrong impression,
- wrongness
- logogram
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- a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese" related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- allegory,
- alphabet,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- arrowhead,
- art,
- blueprint,
- calembour,
- character,
- charactering,
- characterization,
- charactery,
- chart,
- choreography,
- cipher,
- conventional representation,
- conventional symbol,
- corruption,
- cuneiform,
- dance notation,
- delineation,
- demonstration,
- demotic character,
- depiction,
- depictment,
- determinative,
- diagram,
- drama,
- drawing,
- emblem,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exemplification,
- figuration,
- grammalogue,
- hieratic symbol,
- hieroglyph,
- hieroglyphic,
- hieroglyphics,
- hiragana,
- iconography,
- iconology,
- ideogram,
- ideograph,
- illustration,
- imagery,
- imaging,
- jeu de mots,
- kana,
- katakana,
- letter,
- limning,
- logograph,
- logogriph,
- logotype,
- love knot,
- malapropism,
- map,
- metagram,
- missaying,
- musical notation,
- notation,
- ogham,
- palindrome,
- paronomasia,
- phonetic,
- phonetic symbol,
- pictogram,
- pictograph,
- picturization,
- plan,
- play on words,
- portraiture,
- portrayal,
- prefigurement,
- presentment,
- printing,
- projection,
- pun,
- punning,
- radical,
- realization,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- representation,
- rune,
- schema,
- score,
- script,
- shorthand,
- spoonerism,
- syllabary,
- symbol,
- symbolic system,
- symbolism,
- symbolization,
- symbology,
- tablature,
- token,
- totem,
- totem pole,
- type,
- wedge,
- word letter,
- wordplay,
- writing
- infelicity
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- inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) related words >
- Gothicism,
- abnormality,
- aching heart,
- agony,
- agony of mind,
- anguish,
- anomaly,
- antiphrasis,
- bad taste,
- bale,
- barbarism,
- barbarousness,
- bitterness,
- bleeding heart,
- bombasticness,
- broken heart,
- cacology,
- cacophony,
- cheerlessness,
- clumsiness,
- coarseness,
- corruption,
- crudeness,
- crushing,
- cumbrousness,
- depression,
- depth of misery,
- desolation,
- despair,
- discontent,
- displeasure,
- dysphemism,
- extremity,
- futility,
- gracelessness,
- grief,
- grimness,
- grossness,
- harshness,
- heartache,
- heaviness,
- heavy heart,
- humorlessness,
- ill-balanced sentences,
- impoliticalness,
- impoliticness,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- inadmissibility,
- inadvisability,
- inapplicability,
- inappositeness,
- inappropriateness,
- inaptitude,
- inaptness,
- inauspiciousness,
- inconcinnity,
- incongruity,
- inconvenience,
- inconveniency,
- incorrectness,
- indecorousness,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- ineptitude,
- inexpedience,
- inexpediency,
- infestivity,
- inopportuneness,
- inopportunity,
- intempestivity,
- interruption,
- intrusion,
- irrelevance,
- irrelevancy,
- joylessness,
- lack of finish,
- lack of polish,
- lateness,
- leadenness,
- maladjustment,
- malapropism,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- mesalliance,
- mirthlessness,
- misalliance,
- misconstruction,
- misery,
- misjoinder,
- misjoining,
- mismatch,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- pompousness,
- ponderousness,
- poor diction,
- prematurity,
- prostration,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- sadness,
- sesquipedalianism,
- sesquipedality,
- slipshod construction,
- solecism,
- stiltedness,
- suicidal despair,
- tastelessness,
- turgidity,
- uncheerfulness,
- uncongeniality,
- uncouthness,
- undesirability,
- uneuphoniousness,
- unfavorableness,
- unfitness,
- unfittingness,
- unfortunateness,
- ungracefulness,
- ungrammaticism,
- unhappiness,
- unjoyfulness,
- unmeetness,
- unmirthfulness,
- unprofitability,
- unprofitableness,
- unpropitiousness,
- unrefinement,
- unripeness,
- unseasonableness,
- unseemliness,
- unsuitability,
- untimeliness,
- unwieldiness,
- unwiseness,
- uselessness,
- vulgarism,
- vulgarity,
- woe,
- worthlessness,
- wretchedness,
- wrongness
- fluff
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- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
- any light downy material related words >
- Irish bull,
- aerate,
- air,
- anacoluthon,
- bad job,
- ball up,
- bevue,
- bloomer,
- blooper,
- blow,
- blubber,
- blunder,
- bobble,
- boggle,
- bollix,
- bonehead play,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- boot,
- botch,
- breeze,
- bubble,
- bull,
- bungle,
- butter,
- catachresis,
- chaff,
- chip,
- clay,
- clumsy performance,
- cobweb,
- cock up,
- cork,
- cushion,
- daintiness,
- delicacy,
- dough,
- down,
- downiness,
- drop a brick,
- drop the ball,
- duff,
- dust,
- ease,
- eiderdown,
- error,
- ether,
- etourderie,
- fairy,
- feather,
- feather bed,
- feathers,
- filminess,
- fine-grainedness,
- fineness,
- fleece,
- floss,
- flub,
- flue,
- fluffiness,
- foam,
- folk etymology,
- foozle,
- foul up,
- froth,
- fuck up,
- fumble,
- fur,
- fuzz,
- fuzziness,
- gaucherie,
- gentle,
- girl friend,
- goof,
- goof up,
- gossamer,
- gossameriness,
- grammatical error,
- hash,
- howler,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- kapok,
- knead,
- lapse,
- laxate,
- limber,
- limber up,
- lint,
- loosen,
- louse up,
- malaprop,
- malapropism,
- marrowsky,
- mash,
- massage,
- mellow,
- mess,
- mess up,
- milden,
- miscue,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- mistake,
- mistress,
- misusage,
- mollify,
- mote,
- muck up,
- muddle,
- muff,
- off day,
- peach fuzz,
- pile,
- pillow,
- plump,
- plush,
- pubescence,
- pudding,
- puff,
- puff up,
- pull a boner,
- pulp,
- putty,
- refinement,
- relax,
- rubber,
- ruin,
- sad work,
- satin,
- satininess,
- screw up,
- shake up,
- silk,
- silkiness,
- slip,
- smash,
- smoothness,
- snafu,
- soften,
- soften up,
- softness,
- solecism,
- spoil,
- sponge,
- spoonerism,
- spume,
- squash,
- straw,
- stumble,
- subdue,
- supple,
- swansdown,
- tenderize,
- thistledown,
- tone down,
- trip,
- tune down,
- velvet,
- velvetiness,
- wax,
- wool,
- zephyr
- corruption
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- inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony); "he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering"
- destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"
- decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) related words >
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- abjection,
- abomination,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- adulteration,
- alienation,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- antiphrasis,
- atrocity,
- bad,
- bane,
- barbarism,
- bastardizing,
- befouling,
- befoulment,
- biodegradability,
- biodegradation,
- blight,
- brainwashing,
- breakup,
- bribery,
- bribery and corruption,
- bribing,
- cacoepy,
- cacology,
- calembour,
- carrion,
- college of Laputa,
- colloquialism,
- contamination,
- corrosion,
- corruptedness,
- corruptness,
- counterindoctrination,
- criminality,
- crookedness,
- crying evil,
- cutting,
- damage,
- dandruff,
- debasement,
- decadence,
- decadency,
- decay,
- decomposition,
- defilement,
- degeneracy,
- degenerateness,
- degeneration,
- degradability,
- degradation,
- demoralization,
- depravation,
- depravedness,
- depravity,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- deviousness,
- dilapidation,
- dilution,
- dishonesty,
- dishonor,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- dissoluteness,
- dissolution,
- doctoring,
- envenoming,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- evasiveness,
- evil,
- excrement,
- false coloring,
- feloniousness,
- festering,
- filth,
- fortifying,
- foul matter,
- fouling,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- furfur,
- gammacism,
- gangrene,
- graft,
- grievance,
- harm,
- havoc,
- hurt,
- ill,
- improbity,
- impropriety,
- indirection,
- indoctrination,
- infection,
- infelicity,
- injury,
- jeu de mots,
- lacing,
- lambdacism,
- localism,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- mess,
- metagram,
- mildew,
- mischief,
- misconstruction,
- misdirection,
- misguidance,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misinterpretation,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- mispronunciation,
- misrepresentation,
- missaying,
- misspeaking,
- misteaching,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- mold,
- moral pollution,
- moral turpitude,
- muck,
- mucus,
- mystification,
- mytacism,
- obfuscation,
- obscenity,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- ordure,
- outrage,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- palindrome,
- paralambdacism,
- pararhotacism,
- paronomasia,
- perversion,
- play on words,
- poison,
- poisoning,
- pollution,
- profligacy,
- prostitution,
- pun,
- punning,
- pus,
- putrid matter,
- reindoctrination,
- reprobacy,
- resolution,
- rhotacism,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- rust,
- scurf,
- scuz,
- shadiness,
- shiftiness,
- slang,
- slanting,
- slime,
- slipperiness,
- smut,
- snot,
- solecism,
- sophistry,
- sordes,
- spiking,
- spoilage,
- spoonerism,
- straining,
- subornation,
- subversion,
- suppuration,
- taboo word,
- the worst,
- torturing,
- toxin,
- trickiness,
- turpitude,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- ungrammaticism,
- unsavoriness,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness,
- venom,
- vexation,
- vitiation,
- vulgarism,
- watering,
- woe,
- wordplay,
- wrong
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