infelicitous

Example Sentences

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The former minister said his comments were "infelicitous" but "his concerns about Islamism are entirely legitimate" and he should not have been suspended from the party.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024

It struck me as infelicitous at best that Aster’s “hero” should be “subjected” to the very sort of inner-city crime fantasy that so often misrepresents urban life in American pop culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023

An author of previous books on Wall Street, the Mafia and Ayn Rand, Weiss is sure-footed here, stepping around fading file boxes of legal material, with only occasional flights into infelicitous zoological metaphor.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2022

Some of that pushback can probably be chalked up to the infelicitous way Netflix made the announcement—over Twitter, using that chummy brand voice that implies corporations have feelings to offer a “just business” justification.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2019

The copy editor for the series, our last line of defense against the stupid mistake or infelicitous phrase, was Joe Rogers.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times