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How to use infelicitous in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word infelicitous? Here are some examples.

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The four disciplines of aquatic sports, namely swimming, water polo, diving and synchronized swimming are infelicitous and poorly represented.
Somewhat infelicitous and arrhythmic on paper, the pledge is powerful when chanted out loud by thousands.
And Reeve nails the problem with market-led concepts of desert only to adumbrate an alternative that is equally infelicitous.
This infelicitous parental combination had produced a timid, nervous son whose prognosis for healthy adulthood was poor.
I can sort of see my way through, but I have trouble explaining why the following is infelicitous.
Additionally, they didn't view their admittedly infelicitous subject matter as somehow requiring a huskier or aggressive musical stance.
Every scholar and teacher has a list of infelicitous translations which misrepresent or distort the meaning intended by biblical authors.
Given the infelicitous effects of other utterances in the play, Titus's vow during this extended ritual does not act as directly or causatively as he thinks it does.
If an infelicitous remark to a grimalkin or bedlamite leads to a velitation, during which you run head on into closed fists, you will surely suffer tumefaction and no doubt sport a tumescent nose.
In the other two cases, our concern is not with the whole content of the indent or recital involved, but with infelicitous phrases found there.
We will help you select a name that leads to no misunderstandings, confusion or infelicitous choices.
It accounts for the occasional lapses into infelicitous sentiment, tired phrasing and intrusive personal details that would have appalled the American.
It was a smart neologism, I suppose, even if a bit infelicitous.
Nevertheless, the party's support is up, and there are elections on the way, which is a not infelicitous situation for any political leader to be in.
But viral advertising based on an infelicitous turn of phrase is not something Filexec is interested in, Chavez said.
Mr Yanukovich's two criminal convictions, rumours of other malfeasance and his occasional, infelicitous use of prison slang do not burnish his image.
Local governments should move quickly to ban needlessly abusive, verbally infelicitous, graphically substandard or premeditatedly cute bumper stickers.
Nicely, Mr Sharpton withdrew a planned award to Island Def Jam last week, seeing that the award would look a little infelicitous after his witch-hunt of Mr Imus.
That's around twenty thousand well-chosen words, written in a straightforward, deceptively simple style, with scarcely an infelicitous sentence or a detour into academic jargon from beginning to end.
Something splay, something blunt-edged, unhandy, and infelicitous.
Examples from Classical Literature
He hated the prisoner for his infelicitous and untimely crime, yet he could not make up his mind to his death.
The name of the gentleman who enjoyed this infelicitous distinction was Tretherick.
Her conversation is crude and infelicitous, her conduct excessively ill-bred.
Be that as it may, he often makes her serve as a symbol for material existence, obviously an infelicitous parallel.
Perhaps these circumstances gave the locality its infelicitous reputation.
To Burnett it had been only a canvas daubed with infelicitous paint.
In the first place, their choice of Monmouth as the heir was infelicitous.
Pray, sir, is it my infelicitous allusion to Miss Light's marriage?
Nevertheless, I suspect even academic specialists will be deterred by the book's many infelicitous phrases and meandering sentences.
Distortion is an infelicitous term, given that it implies an originary content, but it nonetheless makes Verstraten's point that content can never be neutrally presented.
Further, an infelicitous misquotation obscures an interpretive subtlety her argument might have fruitfully pursued, but which remains unrecognized.
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