malapropos

Example Sentences

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You’ll have to pardon my cursedly malapropos appearance.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart

As far as Mostyn was concerned, this first malapropos meeting indicated the whole evening.

From The Man Between, an International Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

And he permitted himself a little blaspheming on his own account, for the visitor, as Ste. Marie had said, came most malapropos, and, besides, he disliked Miss Benham's uncle.

From Jason by Forman, Justus Miles

On the other hand, never express dissatisfaction with a response, however absurd or malapropos it may be.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

Now and then their comments, after the manner of their age, were keenly malapropos and occasioned a sense of embarrassment.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles