malapropos
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Lashmar had a genius for the malapropos.
From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George
Now and then their comments, after the manner of their age, were keenly malapropos and occasioned a sense of embarrassment.
From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles
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)
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
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.
