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felicitous

[fi-lis-i-tuhs] / fɪˈlɪs ɪ təs /


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A win for this film would be nothing less than felicitous in a post-#MeToo Hollywood.

From Salon Mar. 11, 2023

This winter, by some felicitous coincidence, the Wheel of Fortune has delivered two delightful books about Alison.

From Washington Post Feb. 15, 2023

Eleven time zones away at Pebble Beach, that felicitous meeting of land and sea, Monahan professes not to be overly concerned with what’s going on in Saudi Arabia.

From Seattle Times Feb. 1, 2022

In Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow,” survival in the 1820s Northwest takes the form of a felicitous friendship between itinerant baker Cookie and Chinese immigrant King-Lu.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 6, 2021

Though no such felicitous circumstance transpired, still I walked with light enough step.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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