malapropos
Example Sentences
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And he permitted himself a little blaspheming on his own account, for the visitor, as Ste. Marie had said, came most malapropos, and, besides, he disliked Miss Benham's uncle.
From Jason by Forman, Justus Miles
Its suggestions were so visionary, its reasoning so fallacious, its assumptions so unwarranted, its conclusions so malapropos, that it falls below critical examination.
From A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History by Nicolay, John George
Mrs. Lashmar had a genius for the malapropos.
From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George
"Ah! before instead of after, when I only see I have said something malapropos," said Ethel.
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
This malapropos discovery, materially diminished the pleasure we had before experienced, on first seeing a new part of the continent.
