infelicitous

How To Use infelicitous In A Sentence

• But if literary language is performative and if a performative utterance is not true or false but felicitous or infelicitous, what does it mean for a literary utterance to be felicitous or infelicitous?
• It was a smart neologism, I suppose, even if a bit infelicitous.
• Such infelicitous phrasing is, as we've often seen, indicative of an eddy or whorl under the surface of the poem. The Times Literary Supplement
• the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy
• Your driving fast parallel is spectacularly infelicitous, unless you are suggesting that 'mania junior is the most likely to be damaged by a form of' asocial 'behaviour, be it going to a school where teachers wear gowns, playing chicken on the M1 or driving too fast. Ironic Ducks
• And Reeve nails the problem with market-led concepts of desert only to adumbrate an alternative that is equally infelicitous.
• Somewhat infelicitous and arrhythmic on paper, the pledge is powerful when chanted out loud by thousands.
• infelicitous circumstances
• The use of the word 'predominately' was not occasional nor infelicitous. Times, Sunday Times
• Nevertheless, the party's support is up, and there are elections on the way, which is a not infelicitous situation for any political leader to be in.