malapropos

Example Sentences

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Never! nobody ever does; I am a proverb and a by-word for my malapropos speeches.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

On the other hand, never express dissatisfaction with a response, however absurd or malapropos it may be.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

He fancied that the whole incident had been a most unfortunate malapropos, and that Balfour was sinking under shame and confusion.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James

So Christina, snubbed and blamed for her malapropos question, subsided into sullen indifference externally, while inwardly passing on the blame for her correction to Theodora, who, she decided, was going to be unlucky to her.

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Now and then their comments, after the manner of their age, were keenly malapropos and occasioned a sense of embarrassment.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles