infelicity
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For a more complete and very funny deconstruction of its infelicity, read Jonathan Last’s riff in The Bulwark.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2020
This type of verbal infelicity underscores the limitations of automatic, computerized word and spelling-check mechanisms, whereby a word or words can slip through undetected, regardless of the context of usage, however inapposite.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2019
Yet the sheer variety of interactions makes up for the occasional infelicity.
From Slate • Oct. 26, 2017
Along with Bush money and Bush connections, Jeb also inherited the Bushian infelicity with language.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2016
This union was neither long nor happy, but the blame for its infelicity is generally attributed to the lady, whose abnormal character was reflected and accentuated in her unhappy son.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
