inapropos
Example Sentences
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In this connection a word on Chantilly lace may not be found inapropos.
From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche
Their liveliness, their gaiety, their love of fun, seemed a little inapropos in the setting of a Methodist parsonage.
From Prudence of the Parsonage by Hueston, Ethel
The two men acknowledged the introduction, inapropos as it was.
From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
No one, however, joined more heartily than he in the merriment that his inapropos reminiscence caused, and we reached home in a good humour that effectually kept off the cold.
From People of the Whirlpool by Wright, Mabel Osgood
