malapropos
Example Sentences
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Then, on another occasion, he breaks in upon the lofty spiritualities of our Lord's final discourse to His disciples, with the malapropos request, 'Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
"Ah! before instead of after, when I only see I have said something malapropos," said Ethel.
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge
"A caller would come singularly malapropos just now," said he.
From Jason by Justus Miles Forman
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
Fanny made malapropos speeches sometimes still, but they were never unkindly meant now, and she looked with very loving eyes from one sister to the other.
From Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
