How To Use Felicitously In A Sentence
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In the first lecture of my freshman economics course at Princeton entitled "The Art of Siffing Among Seasoned Adults," I demonstrate how seasoned adults routinely structure information felicitously (i.e., "sif") to further their own agenda, and I point out that economists can be among the most skillful practitioners of this art. ...
Economist's View
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My own views, however infelicitously expressed, are more definitive and negative than yours.
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In all candor I must say that she approached closely to a realization of the ideals of a book -- a sixteenmo, if you please, fair to look upon, of clear, clean type, well ordered and well edited, amply margined, neatly bound; a human book whose text, as represented by her disposition and her mind, corresponded felicitously with the comeliness of her exterior.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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Most infelicitously, Jordan Lage, who can be a problem even in one part, is made to play seven.
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Perhaps no work in the genre infelicitously labeled science fiction has had so much influence or staying power.
Jonathan D. Moreno: Brave New World Turns 80
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In the first lecture of my freshman economics course at Princeton entitled "The Art of Siffing Among Seasoned Adults," I demonstrate how seasoned adults routinely structure information felicitously (i.e., "sif") to further their own agenda, and I point out that economists can be among the most skillful practitioners of this art.
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a not felicitously chosen word
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Second, the felicity, if I may infelicitously use the word, of death is zero.
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he chose his words rather infelicitously
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In the second part, I allow my fancy to play lightly with the suggestions this name arouses in me, and I make allusion very felicitously to the famous statue of the Wingless Victory, which the
The God of Love
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After the war, Smith convinced prohibitionists to organize within the infelicitously named Anti-Dramshop Party.
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Ontologically speaking," he might have mused, "how could conservatism ever really be said to be turbo-charged, as you so infelicitously put it?
Buckley, If Not God, Returns to Yale
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He came to be influenced in this latter pursuit by primitive forms, which rhymed felicitously with those elongated features found in much of his portraiture.
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In the novels of the period the dilemma was felicitously solved by the discovery, on the last page, that the apparently penniless heroine was really a great heiress.
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He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
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In all candor I must say that she approached closely to a realization of the ideals of a book -- a sixteenmo, if you please, fair to look upon, of clear, clean type, well ordered and well edited, amply margined, neatly bound; a human look whose text, as represented by her disposition and her mind, corresponded felicitously with the comeliness of her exterior.
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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Exploration of linguistic cross-references yields some stylistic delights, such as the felicitously punning chapter title ‘Trojan Whores.’
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He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
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But on this particular day it seemed as if some of the ingredients were wanting, for the morning and afternoon passed, to the astonishment of all, without a single "phiz" as the girls were wont somewhat felicitously to call the frequent passages of arms in which the two girls considered it their peculiar privilege to indulge.
Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission
