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"infelicitous" Definitions
  1. not felicitous: such as
  2. not appropriate or well-timed
  3. AWKWARD, UNFORTUNATE

42 Sentences With "infelicitous"

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Some words are so infelicitous that our Style Guide bans them altogether.
Byrnes rose to become police superintendent in 1892, but his timing was infelicitous.
McConnell's infelicitous choice of words and #LetLizSpeak have quickly became trending hashtags on Twitter.
That grid revision unfortunately resulted in some infelicitous words being added to the puzzle.
This is a particularly infelicitous marriage of sponsor name and commodity that has been in use since 2005.
Infelicitous acronyms pile up like tech scrap in the back of a computer repair shop, bits and pieces, capitalized letters strung together.
Förg in Venice, at Palazzo Contarini Polignac, however, shows what goes wrong when a gifted artist is presented in an infelicitous setting.
" In a rather infelicitous simile, Lebrecht goes on to say that anxiety has acted on the Jews "like an Egyptian taskmaster in the Book of Exodus.
Despite the infelicitous coincidence of the election date with Easter — which would normally have been expected to depress turnout — turnout actually ticked slightly upward from recent contests, to 67 percent.
My longstanding theory for what would break Philip was that the KGB had killed Martha rather than spirited her away to Russia, and he'd learn that fact at a psychologically infelicitous time.
He continues, noting that his fellow judges claim that they do not have to address the effect of their decision on the wider population because Nosal's infelicitous conduct "bears little resemblance" to everyday password sharing.
The mural is in fact a somewhat recent flourish, having been commissioned by the wartime fascists of Vichy, but that infelicitous detail is easily obscured by the vision of splendid continuity the painting sets forth.
And toward the end of the 90-minute showdown, Pence began to falter, and then with a single infelicitous phrase he evoked the only wall Trump will ever build: the one between the Republican Party and Latino voters.
One day, while at the gym, I thought wryly of the phrase DEN OF INIQUITY in regard to one of the … let's say, infelicitous … conversations I happened to overhear in the sauna (thankfully, I wear headphones the rest of the time).
After a temperate start, in which the two seemed close to agreeing on the public responsibilities of Trump's daughter Ivanka, Carlson zeroed in on an infelicitous phrase from Duca's essay: she had claimed that Trump was "threatening the sovereignty of an entire religion," and Carlson demanded that she explain what that meant.
To be sure, infelicitous phrases by Mr. Trump and other senior administration officials like, "All options are on the table," and, "I wish Nicolás Maduro and his top advisers a long, quiet retirement, living on a nice beach somewhere," may draw cheers, help deliver votes, and generate money in a critical swing state in 2020.
Bloomberg argued that he'd spent more than $100 million to help elect those Democrats, and in a moment of honest, but infelicitous, phrasing, said, "I bought them," and then corrected himself to "got them": Did Mike Bloomberg actually just tell the Moderators that he BOUGHT all the Dems who voted in Nancy Pelosi for $100 million?
It will not be "woke" to pillory people as racists for passingly infelicitous gestures, such as referring to black people as "colored people" (like Good Morning America's Amy Robach did last summer), or photoshopping themselves riding on the back of a black athlete in praise of their accomplishment (Ellen DeGeneres and Usain Bolt), or showing blonde, white Khaleesi embraced by brown-skinned Dothrakis on Game of Thrones.
In linguistics and philosophy of language, an utterance is felicitous if it is pragmatically well-formed. An utterance can be infelicitous because it is self-contradictory, trivial, irrelevant, or because it is somehow inappropriate for the context of utterance. Researchers in semantics and pragmatics use felicity judgments much as syntacticians use grammaticality judgments. An infelicitous sentence is marked with the pound sign.
If an infelicitous remark to a grimalkin or bedlamite leads to a velitation, during which you run head on into closed fists, you will surely suffer tumefaction and no doubt sport a tumescent nose.
The terms felicitous and infelicitous were first proposed by J. L. Austin as part of his theory of speech acts. In his thinking, a performative utterance is neither true nor false, but can instead be deemed felicitous or infelicitous according to a set of conditions whose interpretation differs depending on whether the utterance in question is a declaration ("I sentence you to death"), a request ("I ask that you stop doing that") or a warning ("I warn you not to jump off the roof").
Bare-nouns in argument positions in French are almost universally infelicitous, though not entirely non-existent. They are available in very specific constructions, such as idiomatic expressions, and coordination:Roodenburg, Jasper. "The interpretations of coordinated bare nouns in French." Proceedings of ConSole XI. 2003.
320 Bliss Perry considered a knowledge of his work vital for an understanding of the American provincial novel and believed that "he has never in his long career written an insincere, a slovenly, or an infelicitous page."Perry, Bliss, The American Spirit in Literature, Yale University Press, 1918, Chapter X.
After Jerusalem and Bethlehem and other sights of the Holy Land, they went to Mount Sinai and Cairo. According to Fabri's account, Lászai improvised a poem in honor of St. Catherine at the Saint Catherine's Monastery. In Cairo, he preached to "infelicitous Hungarian Mamluks" (Hungarin-origin slaves, who were abducted during Ottoman incursions). He also missionized, solemnized, and Christianized these people.
Booth was the original translator of Rajaa Alsanea's bestseller Girls of Riyadh. However, in a letter to the Times Literary Supplement in September 2007, she asserted that the author Alsanea and the publishers Penguin had interfered with her initial translation, resulting in a final version that was "inferior and infelicitous".Booth, Marilyn. "Letters to the Editor, 'Girls of Riyadh'", The Times Literary Supplement, 2007-09-27.
"Atlas, James. "The Ma and Pa of the Intelligentsia", New York Magazine, September 25, 2006, accessed April 6, 2017 Timothy Noah wrote: "Silvers edited three successive galleys for every piece, sharpening the argument, requesting additional evidence, removing pompous jargon and infelicitous phrases." His New York Times obituary noted: "Silvers brought to [the Review] a self-effacing, almost priestly sense of devotion. ... [He was] loath to grant interviews.
Roots, i.e. formatives from the Formative List, are exponed based on their features. For example, the first-person singular pronominal paradigm in English is exponed as follows: [+1 +sing +nom +prn] ←→ /aj/ [+1 +sing +prn] ←→ /mi/ The use of /mi/ does not seem infelicitous in a nominative context at first glance. If /mi/ acquired nominative case in the syntax, it would seem appropriate to use it.
"Irregardless"; Collins Dictionaries. "Irregardless"; Lexicus. "Irregardless". "irregardless" is dismissed as "not a word" in some style guides. All words in English originated by becoming commonly used during a certain time period, so although there are many vernacular words currently not accepted as part of the standard language, or regarded as infelicitous in formal speech or writing, it does not follow that they are somehow not words.
Mercury on this panel from a Roman mosaic of the months (from El Djem, Tunisia, first half of 3rd century AD) Maius or mensis Maius (May) was the third month of the ancient Roman calendar, following Aprilis (April) and preceding Iunius (June). On the oldest Roman calendar that had begun with March, it was the third of ten months in the year. May had 31 days. The Romans considered May an infelicitous month.
Definite descriptions have also been argued to have split scope. Definites are classically considered to presuppose that their referents are unique. For instance, the definite description "the cat" is infelicitous in a context where there are multiple cats which the speaker could have in mind. However, this generalization seems to be contradicted by Haddock descriptions such as the following: # Context: In front of the speaker are numerous hats, one of which contains a rabbit.
The question/answer paradigm shown in (3)–(5) has been utilized by a variety of theorists to illustrate the range of contexts a sentence containing focus can be used felicitously. Specifically, the question/answer paradigm has been used as a diagnostic for what counts as new information. For example, the focus pattern in (3) would be infelicitous if the question was ‘Did you see a grey dog or a black dog?’. In (3) and (4), the pitch accent is marked in bold.
The second paragraph of Chapter 5 contains several articles of disparate administrative content; but they are not the same as the "other prescripts" of §1; the redaction of the headings is generally seen as confusing and infelicitous on this point. Most articles in §2 are combined in coherent groups. The first of these groups consists of articles pertaining to international law and treaties. Article 90 states that it is the duty of government to promote the international rule of law.
At the Diet of Worms, he endeavored to have Luther declared an outlaw. A quarrel with the papacy turned, or helped to turn, his thoughts in the direction of church reform, but he hoped this would come from within rather than from without. He was initially a proponent of the Erasmian agenda of reform, which recognized certain corrupt and infelicitous religious practices but proposed no serious doctrinal change. Over time, his program for change expanded, and his evangelical sympathies became more pronounced.
However, as is typical of > popular statistical procedures, classical test theory is prone to > misinterpretation. One reason for this is the terminology used: if a > competition for the misnomer of the century existed, the term 'true score' > would be a serious contestant. The infelicitous use of the adjective 'true' > invites the mistaken idea that the true score on a test must somehow be > identical to the 'real', 'valid', or 'construct' score. This chapter has > hopefully proved the inadequacy of this view beyond reasonable doubt.
On the night of the final Melsen performed 8th in the running order, following France and preceding the United Kingdom. With its metronomic rhythm and facile lyrics, "Pomme, pomme, pomme" is often cited as a particularly childish and inane song, even by Eurovision standards, and frequently features in montages of Eurovision's more infelicitous musical moments. It only had one backup singer and that was the only performance in the contest which others had none or more than one. At the close of voting it had received 70 points, placing Luxembourg 13th of the 18 entries.
In her boudoir, Mrs. Pennythorne opines to her niece, Annabella Penrose, who has inherited 25,000 pounds from her aunt, Salamanca Trombone, that marriage is a very positive institution, despite her own marriage to a man who promptly ran off with all her money. Annabella doesn't fancy marrying the much older and infelicitous Mr. Dee, despite his wealth. The young Mr. Churchmouse, on the other hand, is painfully shy (as Robin Oakapple would be in Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore almost two decades later), except when he is portraying a role on stage.
P. 94 the most illustrative example being "I do", as part of a marriage ceremony. For any of these performative utterances to be felicitous, per Austin, they must be true, appropriate and conventional according to those with the proper authority: a priest, a judge, or the scholar, for instance. Austin accounts for the infelicitous by noting that "there will always occur difficult or marginal cases where nothing in the previous history of a conventional procedure will decide conclusively whether such a procedure is or is not correctly applied to such a case".Austin, J. L. How To Do Things With Words.
New York: Routledge, 1997 P. 147 The question of the infelicitous utterance (the misfire) is also taken up by Shoshana Felman when she states "Infelicity, or failure, is not for Austin an accident of the performative, it is inherent in it, essential to it. In other words ... Austin conceives of failure not as external but as internal to the promise, as what actually constitutes it."Felman, Shoshana Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages P. 45-46 Performance studies has also had a strong relationship to the fields of feminism, psychoanalysis, critical race theory and queer theory. Theorists like Peggy Phelan,Phelan, Peggy.
According to J. L. Austin, "performative utterance" refers to a not truth-valuable action of "performing", or "doing" a certain action. For example, when people say "I promise to do so and so", they are generating the action of making a promise. In this case, without any flaw (the promise is flawlessly fulfilled), the "performative utterance" is "happy", or to use J. L. Austin's word, "felicitous"; if on the other hand, one fails to do what he or she promised, it can be "unhappy", or "infelicitous". Notice that performative utterance is not truth-valuable, which means nothing said can be judged based on truth or falsity.
Throughout Micheaux's career the board consistently voiced their distaste for his films. Evan Chesterman wrote in a 1925 report that Micheaux's production company was, "a negro corporation, whose output is designed solely for colored houses, and whose actors, almost without exception, are colored people, has been severely disciplined on account of its infelicitous, not to say dangerous, treatment of the race question." The board's response to Micheaux's films provides a glimpse of their larger administrative agenda of managing race relations under a code of white paternalism and a strict racial etiquette. Micheaux and the Virginia Board of Censors first came at odds over his 1924 film, Birthright.
According to present doctrine, that of "treaty monism", treaties are in the Dutch legal system in principle self-executing; no special transformation is needed by implementing special law, as in countries with a "dualistic" system (such as the United Kingdom). However, when the present articles covering this subject were last revisioned, in 1953, doctrine was divided and some defended a more dualistic position, that of "limited monism". They demanded the constitution to be neutral on this issue and this has led to some infelicitous results. Government originally intended that Article 93, stating that treaties of a generally binding nature would only have such binding force after they had been published, to be simply a safeguard, protecting the citizen against duties imposed on him by such treaty.
The first page of King John from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623 King John is closely related to an anonymous history play, The Troublesome Reign of King John (c. 1589), the "masterly construction" the infelicitous expression of which led Peter Alexander to argue that Shakespeare's was the earlier play. E. A. J. Honigmann elaborated these arguments, both in his preface to the second Arden edition of King John, and in his 1982 monograph on Shakespeare's influence on his contemporaries. The majority view, however, first advanced in a rebuttal of Honigmann's views by Kenneth Muir, holds that the Troublesome Reign antedates King John by a period of several years; and that the skilful plotting of the Troublesome Reign is neither unparalleled in the period, nor proof of Shakespeare's involvement.

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