infelicity
Example Sentences
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And while his verbal errors and infelicities are largely accidental, they’re hardly incidental.
From New York Times
Taddeo’s use of the close third person camouflages the source of these infelicities even as she seeks to expose the source of the women’s problems.
From The New Yorker
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
The novel’s narrator Laszlo Ratesic, is a member of the state’s Speculative Service, the law-enforcement body charged with ferreting out lies and liars and with sorting “accidental infelicities” from “purposeful misrepresentations.”
From Washington Post
To be fair, any story set in an industry other than filmmaking is bound to incur infelicities when being handled by people who think filmmaking is the noblest cause.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
