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This happened after the Russian Revolution in 1917, when prominent Russian dancers defected and began to spread what the film calls, infelicitously, “the Petipa virus.”

From Washington Post • May 4, 2020

This infelicitously titled, Absurdist romp suggests Gurney had been reading a lot of Edward Albee, and it makes sense that it was first performed at the Cherry Lane, a Greenwich Village bastion of experimental theater.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2018

Individual corals are tiny, gelatinous animals infelicitously referred to as polyps.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

The trip infelicitously coincided with what turned out to be a historic heat wave across New York, and he couldn’t get the R.V.’s air-conditioning to work.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2010

On the proposal of Van Beuningen and Valckenier, who had not yet detached themselves from the States party, an edict was passed to which, somewhat infelicitously, the name of the "Eternal Edict" was given.

From History of Holland by Edmundson, George