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Infelicitous

adjective
1.
Not appropriate in application; defective.  "Infelicitous phrasing" , "The infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy"
2.
Marked by or producing unhappiness.  Synonym: unhappy.  "Unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"





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"Infelicitous" Quotes from Famous Books



... desperately, but with a love more especially inclined to the imaginative and ethereal; it was a fastidious emotion which could jealously guard the loved one against his very self. This amazed and enraptured Tess, whose slight experiences had been so infelicitous till now; and in her reaction from indignation against the male sex she swerved to excess ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy


Words linked to "Infelicitous" :   felicitousness, inept, ill-chosen, infelicity, awkward, cumbersome, felicitous, clumsy, inapt, unfortunate, felicity


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