malapropos
Example Sentences
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This very malapropos visit of Mr. Pickwick to the firm was, as I said, a mistake and damaged his case.
From Bardell v. Pickwick by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
And Bayle, in his somewhat diffuse discourses, has forgotten himself so far as to do Richeome the honour of annotating him very malapropos.
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
Never! nobody ever does; I am a proverb and a by-word for my malapropos speeches.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
Your attacks do choose the most malapropos times——" "Oh, dear no, George!
From Frances Waldeaux by Davis, Rebecca Harding
Nothing occurred to mar the pleasure of the hour, except a trifling incident that might be construed as malapropos and post-meridian by the hypercritical.
From Rolling Stones by Henry, O.
