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

Fanny made malapropos speeches sometimes still, but they were never unkindly meant now, and she looked with very loving eyes from one sister to the other.

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

To him the man habitually seemed as malapropos as a spiteful old lady.

From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

You’ll have to pardon my cursedly malapropos appearance.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart

Mrs. Lashmar had a genius for the malapropos.

From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George