malapropos
Example Sentences
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As far as Mostyn was concerned, this first malapropos meeting indicated the whole evening.
From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Mrs. Lashmar had a genius for the malapropos.
From Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing
He fancied that the whole incident had been a most unfortunate malapropos, and that Balfour was sinking under shame and confusion.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Charles James Lever
Its suggestions were so visionary, its reasoning so fallacious, its assumptions so unwarranted, its conclusions so malapropos, that it falls below critical examination.
From A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History by John George Nicolay
Johnnie Green chose this malapropos moment for reminding the officers of the reason for the coming to the house.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by William MacLeod Raine
