as in wrongness
the quality or state of being unsuitable or unfitting
the infelicity of holiday decorations at a funeral home
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Recent Examples of infelicity
And that’s setting aside odd turns, factual infelicities and jokes that don’t land.
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Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
The Postcard is a somewhat strange book, not without the occasional infelicity of translation, almost experimental in its form.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2023
There is the occasional infelicity in the book.
—William Fotheringham, WSJ, 16 July 2021
But the infelicities of the translation are of relatively minor concern.
—Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020
The usual infelicities of intergenerational living — different standards of kitchen cleanliness, for example — set me on an edge that felt unwarranted.
—Mathina Calliope, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2019
And any fair examination of his record in office shows that these infelicities aren’t really relevant to a just evaluation of his performance.
—Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
The Postcard is a somewhat strange book, not without the occasional infelicity of translation, almost experimental in its form.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2023
There is the occasional infelicity in the book.
—William Fotheringham, WSJ, 16 July 2021
But the infelicities of the translation are of relatively minor concern.
—Mitchell Abidor, The New York Review of Books, 12 Feb. 2020
The usual infelicities of intergenerational living — different standards of kitchen cleanliness, for example — set me on an edge that felt unwarranted.
—Mathina Calliope, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2019
And any fair examination of his record in office shows that these infelicities aren’t really relevant to a just evaluation of his performance.
—Conrad Black, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infelicity
wrongness
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In the 1940s and 50s, Pym’s spinsters had occupied a status of respectable wrongness.—
Literary Hub,
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17 Nov. 2025
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