infelicity
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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
It made her very adaptable and tided them both over a sharp season of infelicity.
From The Return of the Prodigal by May Sinclair
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
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.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2020
There are other small mistakes and infelicities that collectively undermine his arguments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2015
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
