Примеры употребления для infelicitous
1. He accused his "wretched" questioner, who spoke in his native language, of having an "infelicitous" – unhappy – experience of marriage.
2. The word homeland is a vivid but relatively inconsequential example – less a distortion than an infelicitous choice that makes us sound as if we had quaint harvest rituals and a colorful national costume.
3. The policeman offered an infelicitous reply÷ "I‘m just following orders." If the Yesha Council holds its march next week as planned, the ensuing clashes will receive extensive media coverage.
4. Four years after forcing Lott to resign as majority leader because of his infelicitous plug for Strom Thurmond‘s segregationist campaign, Senate Republicans lifted him from disgrace and voted him in as their No. 2 leader –– and the garrulous and grateful Lott was determined to demonstrate that he could control his mouth.
5. In the case of abortion, the result was the immortal proclamation÷ "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one‘s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life" –– a supremely infelicitous definition of the liberty clause that is not just comically cosmic but infinitely elastic.