malapropos
Example Sentences
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So Christina, snubbed and blamed for her malapropos question, subsided into sullen indifference externally, while inwardly passing on the blame for her correction to Theodora, who, she decided, was going to be unlucky to her.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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
Mrs. Lashmar had a genius for the malapropos.
From Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing
Mrs Mansen therefore had had a twofold object in sending her out of the room: first, to stop her malapropos remarks about Annchen Vander Heyden, and secondly, that she might be informed respecting Rudolf’s visit.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams
"A caller would come singularly malapropos just now," said he.
From Jason by Justus Miles Forman
