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
Along with Bush money and Bush connections, Jeb also inherited the Bushian infelicity with language.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2016
Keats died young; and ‘yet his infelicity had years too many.’
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
