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Inappropriateness

noun
1.
Inappropriate conduct.  Synonym: wrongness.
2.
The quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting.  Synonym: unworthiness.  "His praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness"






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"Inappropriateness" Quotes from Famous Books



... humanly she is Queen Elizabeth; and from other points of view Elizabeth is identified with several of the lesser heroines. So likewise the witch Duessa is both Papal Falsehood and Mary Queen of Scots; Prince Arthur both Magnificence and (with sorry inappropriateness) the Earl of Leicester; and others of the characters stand with more or less consistency for such actual persons as Philip II of Spain, Henry IV of France, and Spenser's chief, Lord Grey. In fact, in Renaissance spirit, and following Sidney's 'Defense of Poesie,' Spenser attempts ...
— A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher

... Colors and forms and modes, in themselves graceful or beautiful, can become ungraceful and ridiculous simply through inappropriateness. The most lovely bonnet that the most approved modiste can invent, if worn on the head of a coarse-faced Irishwoman bearing a market-basket on her arm, excites no emotion but that of the ludicrous. The most elegant ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... be pardoned the familiarity, or, if you will, the inappropriateness of this comparison, for the sake of the feeling which dictates it. Besides, I do not propose either to praise or blame, but simply to relate that which fell within my knowledge, without trying to prejudice the opinion of ...
— The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Constant



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