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A: By the time the wedding rolls around you may look like the elephant in the room, but please stop dwelling on why your sister-in-law has chosen such an unfelicitous date to get married.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2013

These unfelicitous japes and one other�a minor character is named Central Park Wes�are the book's only ventures into vivid writing.

From Time Magazine Archive

By an unfelicitous chance she was placed in the same study with Lady Clara Vere de Vere and Emily Washburn.

From When Patty Went to College by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)

John was now preparing for his visit to Ireland, and his singularly unfelicitous attempt at royalty.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

Livingston, who thought himself very adroit, was particularly unfelicitous in his tone.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert