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• Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
• We were surprised today to learn that Mayor Bloomberg dismissed his hand-picked Schools Chancellor, Cathie Black, after 97 infelicitous days as chief of New York City's school system. Henry J. Stern: Black Thursday
• Hoping to make up for his infelicitous soup comment, Stan chimes in with his own compliments. The Search
• This infelicitous parental combination had produced a timid, nervous son whose prognosis for healthy adulthood was poor.
• After the war, Smith convinced prohibitionists to organize within the infelicitously named Anti-Dramshop Party.
• There is little, however, of that rapturous extasy which issues from many a finally most infelicitous husband, some days, weeks, or even months, after the conjugal union. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
• Yet this very tragedy, in spite of its author's protestations, is nothing more than a rifacimento of Racine's drama, and rather infelicitous at that, though it must be admitted that Mendes' style is of classic purity, and some of his scenes are in a measure characterized by vivacity of action. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
• His play has been an infelicitous concoction of ingenuity and inaccuracy, the latter being generally fatal at this elite level. Times, Sunday Times
• It accounts for the occasional lapses into infelicitous sentiment, tired phrasing and intrusive personal details that would have appalled the American.
• Few are entirely immune, and all that it takes for repossession to take hold is an infelicitous set of circumstances. Times, Sunday Times