infelicitous

Speech parts

1. infelicitous - Adjective

2. infelicitous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark; an infelicitous description; infelicitous words.

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Examples

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. Conrad Black

an infelicitous remark Source: Internet

infelicitous phrasing Source: Internet

the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy Source: Internet

infelicitous circumstances Source: Internet

unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes Source: Internet

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