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Malapropos

adjective
1.
Of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature.





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"Malapropos" Quotes from Famous Books



... breakfast, and the day promised to be the hottest of the year. The vicar, heavy-laden man, had sat down in his study to worry over parish accounts. When the door opened to admit his wife, he quivered with annoyance. Mrs. Lashmar had a genius for the malapropos. During breakfast, when her talk would have mattered little, she had kept silence; now that her husband particularly wished to be alone with his anxieties, she entered with an air ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing


Words linked to "Malapropos" :   inapposite, out of place, inopportunely, opportunely, appropriateness, apropos, inappropriate


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