Thesaurus / infelicitous
FEEDBACKHow to use infelicitous in a sentence
Perhaps these circumstances gave the locality its infelicitous reputation.
LEGENDS AND TALESBRET HARTEIt is by no means an uncommon one, not to say that I have a singularly infelicitous memory for people's names.
BARRINGTONCHARLES JAMES LEVERTo one who has seen the great Japanese fleur-de-lis, France looks ludicrously infelicitous in her choice of emblem.
THE SOUL OF THE FAR EASTPERCIVAL LOWELLBut for a few infelicitous accidents, this would have been the case of the late liberation of Quinquinambo.
THE CRUSADE OF THE EXCELSIORBRET HARTEInfelicitous at home, these worrying people are almost more than flesh and blood can bear as travelling companions abroad.
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD AND OTHER SOCIAL ESSAYS, VOL. II (OF 2)ELIZA LYNN LINTONShe had thought it very likely Robert Acton would come and see her; she had not met him since that infelicitous evening.
THE EUROPEANSHENRY JAMESThe latter he could only parody, but his parody was as infelicitous as Bacon's explanation of the "Wisdom of the Ancients."
THE MYSTERY OF FRANCIS BACONWILLIAM T. SMEDLEYIt is then hard to conceive an appeal more singularly infelicitous than that which our modern positivists make to Buddhism.
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCKThe form of the Renaissance lantern is not infelicitous, either from the inside or outside.
CATHEDRALS OF SPAINJOHN A. (JOHN ALLYNE) GADEThat there are hundreds and thousands of infelicitous homes in America no one will doubt.
THE WEDDING RINGT. DE WITT TALMAGEWORDS RELATED TO INFELICITOUS
- adverse
- antagonistic
- calamitous
- contrary
- damaging
- destructive
- disadvantageous
- discommodious
- hostile
- ill
- ill-advised
- improper
- inadvisable
- inauspicious
- inconvenient
- inexpedient
- infelicitous
- inimical
- inopportune
- late
- low
- malapropos
- negative
- objectionable
- ominous
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- regrettable
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- unseasonable
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- at odds
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- bad form
- discordant
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- erroneous
- false
- ill-advised
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- imprudent
- inaccurate
- inadmissible
- inadvisable
- inapplicable
- inapposite
- inappropriate
- inapt
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- ludicrous
- malapropos
- odd
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- inharmonious
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- ludicrous
- malapropos
- naughty
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- out-of-season
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- untimely
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- unwarranted
- wrong
- adverse
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- calamitous
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- damaging
- destructive
- disadvantageous
- discommodious
- hostile
- ill
- ill-advised
- improper
- inadvisable
- inauspicious
- inconvenient
- inexpedient
- infelicitous
- inimical
- inopportune
- late
- low
- malapropos
- negative
- objectionable
- ominous
- opposed
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- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unseasonable
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- below par
- can't make the grade
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- laid low
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- inopportune
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- lamentable
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- unbefitting
- uncalled-for
- undue
- unfit
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- unmatched
- unseasonable
- unseemly
- unsuited
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