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

“All our felicity or infelicity is founded on the nature of the object to which we are joined by love.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various