infelicitous
adjective
inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos.
infelicitously
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a word derived from
infelicitous.
Example Sentences
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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
Despite what probably seemed, to untrained observers, like plausible science, Murillo Karam’s infelicitously phrased “historical truth” was met with widespread skepticism and even scorn.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 8, 2015
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
By this word, which had so infelicitously escaped her, Madame had destroyed the whole merit of her sacrifice.
From Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas père
