malapropos
Example Sentences
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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.
This malapropos and singularly inconsistent suggestion broke up the assemblage at once, in great disorder—volunteering being just the last thing that any one thought of doing.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
Now and then their comments, after the manner of their age, were keenly malapropos and occasioned a sense of embarrassment.
From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles
Your attacks do choose the most malapropos times——" "Oh, dear no, George!
From Frances Waldeaux by Davis, Rebecca Harding
Hope, however, though somewhat sobered, was not altogether destroyed by this malapropos discovery, and we still looked forward with an interest but little abated, to the results of a complete survey of our new discovery.
