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Malapropos

adjective
1.
Of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature.





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... have written this memorandum and presented it to Mr. Lincoln, has never been explained; nor is it capable of explanation. Its suggestions were so visionary, its reasoning so fallacious, its assumptions so unwarranted, its conclusions so malapropos, that it falls below critical examination. Had Mr. Lincoln been an envious or a resentful man, he could not have wished for a better occasion to put ...
— A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln - Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History • John G. Nicolay


Words linked to "Malapropos" :   opportunely, appropriateness, inapposite, out of place, inopportunely, inappropriate, apropos


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