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Malapropos

adjective
1.
Of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature.





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"Malapropos" Quotes from Famous Books



... Zeuxis would quail, lie low,—be silent. Hence I am a young miss who has no talent, except for appreciating Balzac, caramels, Diavolini, vanille souffle, lobster-croquettes, and Strauss' waltzes; though envious people do say that I have a decided genius for 'malapropos historic quotations,' which you know are regarded as unpardonable offences by those who cannot comprehend them. Come here, St. John, and let me rub your fur the wrong way. The world will do it roughly if you survive tender kittenhood, and it is merciful to ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... Miss Malapropos, "how I could let you know what mother thought." She never once suggested his bringing the dog for inspection, as he had brought the other, ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler
... Mabel than she had expected. His undisguised pleasure in renewed companionship with herself; his excellent spirits during the greater part of the evening; his unembarrassed reply to her aunt's malapropos observation, and fluent chat upon other themes, had misled her into the hope that the ungenerous and uncivil conduct of the Ayletts had disgusted and alienated him from sister, no less than from brother. It was a disappointment to discover that it cost him a terrible effort to pronounce ...
— At Last • Marion Harland


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


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