malapropos
Example Sentences
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Johnnie Green chose this malapropos moment for reminding the officers of the reason for the coming to the house.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod
She took, in this malapropos manoeuvre, the same delight that a child experiences through the consciousness of being engaged in some mischievous wrong.
From With the Procession by Fuller, Henry Blake
Never! nobody ever does; I am a proverb and a by-word for my malapropos speeches.
From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda
Your attacks do choose the most malapropos times——" "Oh, dear no, George!
From Frances Waldeaux by Davis, Rebecca Harding
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.
