(a.) Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark; an infelicitous description; infelicitous words.
Example Sentences:
(1) She says some “became activists in the leadership contest ... (and) that’s not their job as journalists.” She also used the conversation with Martin to deliver a hard flick at radio talkback host Alan Jones – the broadcaster who declared Gillard’s father had “died of shame.” Gillard says Jones delivered only a “mealy mouthed apology” for the infelicitous outburst, and he only delivered that because of commercial pressure.
(2) To determine whether the difference observed between type I and type II pyrethroids was the result of an infelicitous selection of doses, cismethrin (type I) was tested over a dose range of 1.5-24 times the conscious rat iv LD50.
(3) In the wake of his infelicitous midnight mass sermon in which the archbishop of Westminster accused ministers of acting to legalise same-sex marriage in defiance of public opinion, Vincent Nichols has called for parishioners to petition MPs against the government's bill on the subject, due to be tabled in mid-January.
Infelicity
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness.
(n.) That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.