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Infelicitous

adjective
1.
Not appropriate in application; defective.  "Infelicitous phrasing" , "The infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy"
2.
Marked by or producing unhappiness.  Synonym: unhappy.  "Unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"





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"Infelicitous" Quotes from Famous Books



... however, to notice that this stout defender of all that is English acknowledges the coupling together of the versicle, "Give peace in our time, O Lord," and the response, "Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God," to be "a very infelicitous non-sequitur." For correcting this palpable incongruity, the authors of The Book Annexed have been sharply criticised here at home. What were they that they should have presumed to disturb ancient Anglican precedent in such a point? If we could not understand ...
— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington


Words linked to "Infelicitous" :   unhappy, awkward, ill-chosen, felicity, inept, infelicity, unfortunate, clumsy, cumbersome, felicitous, felicitousness, inapt


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