infelicitous
Use Infelicitous in a sentence
fəˈlɪs adjective
1.
inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
2.
not felicitous, happy, or fortunate; unhappy.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | not felicitous; unfortunate |
| 2. | inappropriate or unsuitable |
| infelicitously | |
| —adv | |
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Infelicitous
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Example sentences
On such infelicitous systems, sockets and pipes are already opened in binary mode, and there is currently no way to turn that off.
The question for this debate is at best infelicitous and at worse misleading.
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