malapropos

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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

Your attacks do choose the most malapropos times——" "Oh, dear no, George!

From Frances Waldeaux by Davis, Rebecca Harding

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

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

Bridgie, detained at home by malapropos ailments on the part of the children, wrote urgent letters by daily posts, contradicting herself on every point saving one alone—the advisability of delay.

From The Love Affairs of Pixie by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.