malapropos

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So Christina, snubbed and blamed for her malapropos question, subsided into sullen indifference externally, while inwardly passing on the blame for her correction to Theodora, who, she decided, was going to be unlucky to her.

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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

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

He fancied that the whole incident had been a most unfortunate malapropos, and that Balfour was sinking under shame and confusion.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Lever, Charles James