malapropos

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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

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

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

Fanny made malapropos speeches sometimes still, but they were never unkindly meant now, and she looked with very loving eyes from one sister to the other.

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

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)