lapsus linguae

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Reminded that technically the war was over for Russia, Kisselev confessed a "lapsus linguae."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Then jump right in here and I'll drive you to her," said the boy, without running the risk of another lapsus linguae.

From Janice Day the Young Homemaker by Long, Helen Beecher

"The devil they do, ma'am!" bolted out Richard, gruffly; and then, ashamed of his /lapsus linguae/, screwed up his lips firmly, and glared on the company with an eye of indignant fire.

From My Novel — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"A lapsus linguae?" one guest cries, "A pun!" another straight replies.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

In his reply, Mr. Van Buren made his only known lapsus linguae by addressing them as the "Democratic corps."

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley