Next day, thanks to his histrionic powers and his ingratiating address, he was promoted to the rank of "supernumerary captain's servant" -- a "post which," I give his words, "I flatter myself, was created for me alone, and furnished me with opportunities unequalled for a task in which one word malapropos would have been my destruction." ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Washington particularly regretted what he called the “extreme malapropos” effect on Virginia, where the bad news from New Hampshire arrived in March just as delegates to the state ratifying convention were being chosen. ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)
First of all, totally malapropos usage of the Public Enemy lyric quote. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I have every confidence that Israel's economy would rank far higher than 20th in your malapropos IMD "stress test" were it not for the war - now in its seventh decade. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Treason, it seems, is still considered malapropos by some Democrats. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I ought not to lose an opportunity of refuting an absurd story which has been much circulated, and which is repeated exceedingly malapropos under the article of the “Abbé Gedoyn,” upon whom the writer falls foul with great satisfaction, because in his youth he had been a Jesuit; a transient weakness, of which I know he repented all his life. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As soon as the man of genius has made a new application of any word in the language, copyists are not wanting to apply it, very malapropos, in twenty places, without giving the inventor any credit. ❋ Unknown (2007)
FSJ's malapropos concerning geography and language is so American! ❋ Unknown (2007)
It is also the most Mexican malapropos salad you can serve in an otherwise Italian context. ❋ Unknown (2007)
All right, now that we've gotten those out of the way, including the malapropos, shouldn't they be more current? ❋ Unknown (2007)
But, in at least one recollection, Lewis stayed quite sober during this period of celebration, while his friends, who were speculating on his conduct at the court of King Gustaf, which they assumed would in one way or another be hilariously malapropos, carried on. ❋ Unknown (1969)
For a moment, when the messenger told me the President wished to see me in his office after the others were gone, I thought I was to be called to account for my malapropos speech, but I was relieved when he added: ❋ Mary Dillon (N/A)
He stared forward, across his littered table, beyond his bookcases, through his thick-lensed glasses, as if confronting the stiffening legend of a husband too old, too dry, too unpliable; the victim, finally, of a sudden turn that was peculiarly malapropos and disrelishing, the head of a household tricked rather ridiculously before the world. ❋ Henry B. Fuller (N/A)
On the other hand, never express dissatisfaction with a response, however absurd or _malapropos_ it may be. ❋ Lewis Madison Terman (1916)
You'll have to pardon my cursedly malapropos appearance. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)
All my life I have been so malapropos as to welcome with tears the bride coming to take the place of a wife whom I had loved, and this time the tears had been on the wedding day so abundant ❋ Unknown (1909)
It was a remark that seemed particularly malapropos to the sultry weather, and Constance half expected a burst of laughter at the unexpected sally. ❋ Unknown (1908)
