infelicity

A minor infelicity is the distractingly busy set by David Gallo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

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

Characteristic infelicity on the part of the Government to have neglected this opportunity of recognising a reformed character.

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Somewhere beyond the roadie’s own flaws and infelicities, the pages of Mal’s diaries, painstakingly recorded from 1962 to the mid-1970s, reveal an abiding affection for his son.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023

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.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2022

And so, as I write, a little tab with a G on it is hovering to the side, ready to flag my infelicities of expression.

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2022

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grammar snobs are patronising, pretentious and just plain wrong Some observers pointed out that the Texas GOP’s 2014 platform did not contain such infelicities of grammar.

From The Guardian ● May 21, 2016

In those first weeks, Bolles’s topic varied each day, depending on factors as unpredictable as the Seattle weather or what particular infelicities of technique he had noticed in the previous practice.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown