Noun, : infelicities of style. From Dictionary.com.
The still-born child's infelicity is only negative (ver. 4, 5), but that of the covetous worldling is positive; he lives a great while to see himself miserable, ver. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
An infelicity of language may diminish that trust. From Wordnik.com. [Credibility and Incredibility] Reference
Does then Vice need Fortune to bring about infelicity?. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
President at the evident infelicity of his introduction. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
There is considerable infelicity in Fodor's choice of terms. From Wordnik.com. [Methodological Individualism] Reference
How could such an obvious infelicity have been allowed to stand?. From Wordnik.com. [1880s English | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference
The words were hardly spoken when she realized their infelicity. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Mirth] Reference
Leaving aside the infelicity of that first sentence no - don't go there. From Wordnik.com. [The Horror .. the Horror ...] Reference
Is the following infelicity gaining ground in Vespuccia, as it is in Ozland?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: IN PRAISE OF THE TIMES.] Reference
Fortune therefore does not produce perfect infelicity, unless Vice co-operate. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The worst infelicity though was getting just how beaten down most wrestlers get. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
Surely the B.F.E., if you'll pardon the infelicity, of Bavaria - if not Germany. From Wordnik.com. [What do you do about a problem like Bayreuth?] Reference
And yet rather early in Dickens's married life there was more or less infelicity. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
But if the happiness of HAMET was lessened, the infelicity of ALMORAN was increased. From Wordnik.com. [Almoran and Hamet] Reference
But it will involve us in great difficulties and infelicity to be now deprived of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
No impropriety or infelicity had been permitted to mar the smooth texture of its surface. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
Leaving aside the infelicity of that first sentence (no - don't go there ...), Johann has a point. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-08] Reference
This form of domestic infelicity may be rightly regarded as a product of "incompatibility of temperament.". From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
The heart now grew sometimes to be trembling and irresolute, and the soul to have its visions of infelicity. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
Everything has happened that could wreck our married happiness, but we are now armor-clad against infelicity. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
“On my life,” replied Hereward, “I cannot see the infelicity of drinking when we are dying of thirst.”. From Wordnik.com. [Count Robert of Paris] Reference
The aftermath of this victory brings to light some curious mental qualities and a singular infelicity in writing. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
The infelicity and entire inconclusiveness of the definition he has vouchsafed us can hardly have any other effect. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
It was at this time that the differences in character began to cause domestic infelicity in the Wagnerian household. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
At least you finally noticed or finally reported on the syntactical infelicity in the last paragraph of the Rand piece. From Wordnik.com. [What is John Galt?] Reference
In 1911 a broadside titled "The Heathen Invasion" claimed that yoga "leads to domestic infelicity, and insanity and death.". From Wordnik.com. [Philip Goldberg: Calm Down Christians, Yoga Is Not a Threat] Reference
I dunno, maybe it was the infelicity of the wording of the call for submissions, but I just can't shake the feeling of awkward here. From Wordnik.com. [No boys allowed] Reference
The conscience, indeed, of the father is not responsible for events, but the infelicity of the daughter is not less a subject of pity. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
One great cause of matrimonial infelicity is the hasty marriages of persons who have no adequate knowledge of each other's characters. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Vice has universally an ill effect on everybody, being in itself a sufficient producer of infelicity, needing no instruments nor ministers. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Demetrius, in Seneca, esteemed it a great infelicity, that in his lifetime he had no misfortune, miserum cui nihil unquam accidisset, adversi. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Among French novelists she should rather be noted for the extremely small proportion of her numerous romances that have domestic infelicity for a theme. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
But then there need be no cognitive malfunction, glitch, or other infelicity in her actually believing them; therefore, her belief is internally rational. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
So far as the mere laborer has the pride, the knowledge, or the aspirations of a freeman, he is unfitted for his situation, and must doubly feel its infelicity. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
The ego element in human nature is responsible for a very considerable portion of the domestic infelicity that mars the home life of a large proportion of the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
"On my life," replied Hereward, "I cannot see the infelicity of drinking when we are dying of thirst.". From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
Domestic infelicity soon compelled them to keep the wives at different houses, and they alternated weeks in visiting each wife. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
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