malapropos
Example Sentences
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This malapropos and singularly inconsistent suggestion broke up the assemblage at once, in great disorder—volunteering being just the last thing that any one thought of doing.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
As far as Mostyn was concerned, this first malapropos meeting indicated the whole evening.
From The Man Between, an International Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
On the other hand, never express dissatisfaction with a response, however absurd or malapropos it may be.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
Mrs. Lashmar had a genius for the malapropos.
From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George
This malapropos discovery, materially diminished the pleasure we had before experienced, on first seeing a new part of the continent.
