appositeness

Example Sentences

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I could not at the moment recall Enoch’s appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic:—

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

“Something will have to be done about getting a new teacher for that school,” he said with an appositeness which was only too painfully apparent.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

Through some accidental appositeness to some contemporaneous situation, these may become generally current.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

But in thinking out its details we may for the first time note its appositeness to the solution of the problem in hand.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

“He’s a driver and a master,” piped up Grizzly Whiskers, with the appositeness of a Greek chorus.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman