A not felicitously chosen word. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Where one of them would bring a habeas corpus -- a name felicitously expressive, according to the English method, of civil liberty -- an inhabitant of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
"We support the students!" he shouted felicitously. From Wordnik.com. [ZHAO ZIYANG AND THE STUDENTS] Reference
The book isn't always felicitously written, but it's poignant. From Wordnik.com. [‘Me and Orson Welles’: The Boy-Wonder Years] Reference
Gautier has described his friends and comrades most felicitously. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Ludwig's strong points, have again been most felicitously handled. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
Boomhower, of the also felicitously named city of Bad Axe, Michigan. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Straight Out of an Orson Scott Card Ender Novel?] Reference
Jennifer Egan, writing in Slate, has developed this idea felicitously. From Wordnik.com. [The Catastrophist] Reference
This arrangement greatly pleased her; it was so felicitously definite. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
The names are borrowed, not quite felicitously, from classical prosody. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
It is very good; justly thought, and clearly and felicitously expressed. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference
Too bad we're the "cancer of history," as Ms. Sontag so felicitously put it. From Wordnik.com. [More on the "Acting White" study] Reference
What Southey so felicitously says of Kirke White applies most eloquently to young. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
Some die out at once; others felicitously tickle the public ear and ring far and wide. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
Does there happen to be a handbook somewhere on how to felicitously format ones comments?. From Wordnik.com. [Open thread on: localism, decentralism, anarchism, thick conceptions of libertarianism, and the U.S. Constitution] Reference
And those twilight hours, as you felicitously term them, were followed by anxious vigils. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862] Reference
He appears early to have cherished some matrimonial purposes which did not work felicitously. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
But I also received many others that raised the notion of the Macintosh much more felicitously. From Wordnik.com. [Dickens calling -- on smart phone] Reference
As Fodor (1997) has felicitously put it: “Special sciences: still autonomous after all these years”. From Wordnik.com. [Reductionism in Biology] Reference
It is certain that since the time of Homer the deeds and circumstances of war have not been felicitously sung. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
The artist has felicitously blended the tone and character of the bat with that of the young gentleman's head. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference
The perusal of this essay suggested the idea which has been so felicitously expanded in High life below Stairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
Naturally the meetings concluded with a vote of thanks to the Chair, to which I replied (they tell me) felicitously. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919] Reference
As Mark Twain observed so felicitously, "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.". From Wordnik.com. [We're in Trouble If We Get the Behavior We Are Rewarding] Reference
Moore has been felicitously called "the poet of all circles," a phrase which shows that he reflected the general features of his age. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
This work felicitously coincided — post — Richard Nixon — with popular demand for frank portraits of public figures 'private lives. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Great Depression] Reference
It was in my undergraduate days that we met, and ere the half-hour struck we were quarreling felicitously over Weismann and the neo-Darwinians. From Wordnik.com. [Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
Other language programs sell only pieces  dictionaries; grammar books Crud, one cynic Australia felicitously misheard at a thick to. From Wordnik.com. [Planet-x.com.au » Modern Hebrew Language Cd visit Audiobooks teach to languages] Reference
"Other striking structures have emerged since it was built, bigger, taller, glitzier, but none so beautiful, so felicitously sited, so poetic, so moving.". From Wordnik.com. [The New 7 Wonders of the World…..You Can Vote! | Impact Lab] Reference
And you're so felicitously taught when you don't know it. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Speeches] Reference
It seemed impossible that we should actually be near a person so felicitously born. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
He continued as before, lord-paramount of his salon, so felicitously named the Collection of Antiquities. From Wordnik.com. [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference
The whole speech was, indeed, felicitously adroit, and especially in this, that, while in opposition to the. From Wordnik.com. [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference
Choate here -- he hasn't got anything to say, but he says it just the same, and he can do it so felicitously, too. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Speeches] Reference
But wait - by that logic, this Sunday could never be said felicitously, and I'm sure I've said this Sunday on occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Literal-Minded] Reference
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