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Infelicity   Listen
noun
Infelicity  n.  (pl. infelicities)  
1.
The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; lack of suitableness or appropriateness. "Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy."
2.
That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.





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"Infelicity" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Miss Keene's womanhood resented the rude infelicity of this speech and the flippant manner of its utterance. She did not blush, but lifted her clear eyes ...
— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte
... happiness of HAMET was lessened, the infelicity of ALMORAN was increased. All the enjoyments that were in his power he neglected, his attention being wholly fixed upon that which was beyond his reach; he was impatient to see the beauty, who had taken intire possession of his mind; and the probability that ...
— Almoran and Hamet • John Hawkesworth
... was, some nucleus of fact which may have served as a groundwork for these pseudo-historical memorials, is not denied: but to regard that document of which it is professedly a condensation as a genuine record of the period in question, can only, we conceive, be the infelicity of an essentially uncritical mind. Most evidently, whether we regard the known events and relations of that age (as far as they have come down to us) or the internal characteristics of the document itself, we discover unequivocal traces of an unhistoric origin. Let us look ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers
... to it. He said he was a selfish brute to want to keep her to himself. That speech amused Mrs. Gibson immensely. She had a curious and capricious sense of humor. It made her very adaptable and tided them both over a sharp season of infelicity. ...
— The Return of the Prodigal • May Sinclair
... absences from home. Indeed, in a household where the wife is young and the husband elderly, quarrels of that character are almost sure to occur sooner or later. As a doctor I knew the causes of domestic infelicity in a good many homes. Men in my profession see a good deal, and hear more. Every doctor could unfold strange tales of queer households if he were not debarred by the ...
— The Seven Secrets • William Le Queux


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