misenunciate

Definitions

To mispronounce due to poor articulation.

Examples

“The training is not primarily intended for children who merely mispronounce or misenunciate or express⟳ themselves inaptly, unidiomatically and incorrectly for reasons other than defects of speech.”

“What common words are usually misenunciated because of failure to open⟳ the mouth properly?”

“In the method recommended here, when the sounds in nonsense combinations are larned no act of attention is required to repeat⟳ them, and when once a sequence of sounds which are used as part of a word is easily enunciated it slips into the formerly misenunciated word and makes it correct⟳ without any conscious effort on the part of the pupil.”

“It has been my experience⟳ that South Africans misenunciate more than half of these vowel sounds.”

CEFR level