infelicity
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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
Along with Bush money and Bush connections, Jeb also inherited the Bushian infelicity with language.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2016
In domestic infelicity it is our own people we would hide it from longest.
From The House of Fulfilment by George Madden Martin
Then there’s the error-prone syntax — infelicities in editing and writing that add up quickly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022
And so, as I write, a little tab with a G on it is hovering to the side, ready to flag my infelicities of expression.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2022
And I doubt they spent any time correcting whatever infelicities of my pen they found among my scribbled pages.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
Everything about me is out of proportion — including my peanut-sized head — so I face the choice of billowing, dowdy garments or tighter clothes that sometimes cruelly expose my physical infelicities.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2020
In those first weeks, Bolles’s topic varied each day, depending on factors as unpredictable as the Seattle weather or what particular infelicities of technique he had noticed in the previous practice.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
