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

Yet the sheer variety of interactions makes up for the occasional infelicity.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2017

The minor dramatic pieces are of inferior worth, and in some of them, as for example, The Promise of May and The Falcon, Tennyson showed a certain infelicity in his choice of subjects.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh