infelicity

The characters, with their insistence on self-determination, feel too modern, and there are a few infelicities, like the idea that “The Communist Manifesto,” first translated into English toward the end of 1850, would circulate onboard.

Then there’s the error-prone syntax — infelicities in editing and writing that add up quickly.

For a more complete and very funny deconstruction of its infelicity, read Jonathan Last’s riff in The Bulwark.

And I doubt they spent any time correcting whatever infelicities of my pen they found among my scribbled pages.

Everything about me is out of proportion — including my peanut-sized head — so I face the choice of billowing, dowdy garments or tighter clothes that sometimes cruelly expose my physical infelicities.