infelicity
Example Sentences
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A minor infelicity is the distractingly busy set by David Gallo.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
For a more complete and very funny deconstruction of its infelicity, read Jonathan Last’s riff in The Bulwark.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2020
This type of verbal infelicity underscores the limitations of automatic, computerized word and spelling-check mechanisms, whereby a word or words can slip through undetected, regardless of the context of usage, however inapposite.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2019
Along with Bush money and Bush connections, Jeb also inherited the Bushian infelicity with language.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2016
Their essays are curious, as the beginnings of that great critical literature, which in England, in spite of much infelicity, has only been second to the poetry which it judged.
From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
