mislocution

noun

mislocution

noun

Etymology From mis- + locution.

1

incorrect locution

Though distinctly restrained, Sethi’s prose evokes the comic mislocutions of Jonathan Safran Foer and the vertiginous mania of Zadie Smith.2009 July 26, “Fiction Chronicle”, in New York Times:

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