felicitous

Example Sentences

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What he called “the felicitous expression of ideas” mattered more to him than academic point-scoring.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025

Some of Sondheim’s best jokes are swallowed up in the imbalance between singers and orchestra, a situation exacerbated by a perhaps unanticipated and more felicitous problem: the audiences’ frequent boisterous response.

From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2023

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

From Salon • Mar. 11, 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

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