malapropos
Example Sentences
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Fanny made malapropos speeches sometimes still, but they were never unkindly meant now, and she looked with very loving eyes from one sister to the other.
From Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
To him the man habitually seemed as malapropos as a spiteful old lady.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby
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 R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
And Bayle, in his somewhat diffuse discourses, has forgotten himself so far as to do Richeome the honour of annotating him very malapropos.
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
And he permitted himself a little blaspheming on his own account, for the visitor, as Ste. Marie had said, came most malapropos, and, besides, he disliked Miss Benham's uncle.
From Jason by Justus Miles Forman
