infelicity
Example Sentences
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The characters, with their insistence on self-determination, feel too modern, and there are a few infelicities, like the idea that “The Communist Manifesto,” first translated into English toward the end of 1850, would circulate onboard.
From New York Times
Then there’s the error-prone syntax — infelicities in editing and writing that add up quickly.
From Los Angeles Times
For a more complete and very funny deconstruction of its infelicity, read Jonathan Last’s riff in The Bulwark.
From New York Times
And I doubt they spent any time correcting whatever infelicities of my pen they found among my scribbled pages.
From The Guardian
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
