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felicitous

[fi-lis-i-tuhs] / fɪˈlɪs ɪ təs /


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Some of Sondheim’s best jokes are swallowed up in the imbalance between singers and orchestra, a situation exacerbated by a perhaps unanticipated and more felicitous problem: the audiences’ frequent boisterous response.

From Washington Post Mar. 26, 2023

A win for this film would be nothing less than felicitous in a post-#MeToo Hollywood.

From Salon Mar. 11, 2023

Eleven time zones away at Pebble Beach, that felicitous meeting of land and sea, Monahan professes not to be overly concerned with what’s going on in Saudi Arabia.

From Seattle Times Feb. 1, 2022

In Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow,” survival in the 1820s Northwest takes the form of a felicitous friendship between itinerant baker Cookie and Chinese immigrant King-Lu.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 6, 2021

“Ah, Claudia. I gave them companionship and felicitous union.”

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine




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