malapropos
Example Sentences
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As far as Mostyn was concerned, this first malapropos meeting indicated the whole evening.
From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
"Ah! before instead of after, when I only see I have said something malapropos," said Ethel.
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Your attacks do choose the most malapropos times——" "Oh, dear no, George!
From Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Harding Davis
And Bayle, in his somewhat diffuse discourses, has forgotten himself so far as to do Richeome the honour of annotating him very malapropos.
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
Hope, however, though somewhat sobered, was not altogether destroyed by this malapropos discovery, and we still looked forward with an interest but little abated, to the results of a complete survey of our new discovery.
