felicitous
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What he called “the felicitous expression of ideas” mattered more to him than academic point-scoring.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025
A win for this film would be nothing less than felicitous in a post-#MeToo Hollywood.
From Salon • Mar. 11, 2023
One fellow went so far as to block the good people at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation when they were calling with the most felicitous news imaginable.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2022
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
Pope Julius II acted impetuously in all his affairs, and he found the times and circumstances so suitable to this method of procedure that he always achieved felicitous results.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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