He chose his words rather infelicitously.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : an infelicitous remark.    From Dictionary.com. 

(Lippmann described his analysis and persuasion agency, somewhat infelicitously, as an “Intelligence Bureau.”).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ugly Truth About Government « Isegoria] Reference

Blair must decide on the depth and breadth of London's relationship with Brussels, particularly on whether the country will adopt the common currency, infelicitously named the euro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who'd Have Thought It?] Reference

That she had played the part of one, however, was made plain by the faint odor of onions still clinging to her and mixing rather infelicitously with the richer and pleasanter odor of the limo's interior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destination Brain]

The anxieties about "sovereign debt" have been most acute in Europe, where the infelicitously named PIIGS countries -- Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain -- have huge debt burdens, and where Greece in particular is in dire need of assistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker: Could Debt Send California The Way Of Greece? :] Reference

In the early spring of the year, the opposing forces were playing a game of long bowls across the Danube, and very soon the forces commanded by "the divine figure of the North," as Mr Gladstone most infelicitously styled the Czar, had set foot upon the enemy's country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

Sir Hugo Dr.x ( "Moonraker") had an infelicitously reconstructed face; Auric Goldfinger was a stunted hobgoblin with a carrot-topped melon-head; Pincers protruded from Dr. No's sleeves (the popular prejudice runs in favor of two hands); Le Chiffre ( "Casino Royale") wept blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bond Barely Lives Twice] Reference

See Burlington Northern, handed down just last week, which reached the arguably correct policy result, on an ambiguous and infelicitously-worded statute, but which essentially allows corporations that know their activities result in hazardous waste pollution of groundwater to get off the hook for paying to clean it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:] Reference

He stood for some minutes near the window, looking out at the snow; presently he, approached the hearth, and entered into conversation, but not quite with his usual ease: fit topics did not seem to rise to his lips; he chose them fastidiously, hesitatingly, and consequently infelicitously: he spoke vaguely of Villette — its inhabitants, its notable sights and buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

I was illustrating -- not, I hope, quite infelicitously -- the great march of Progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to Methuselah] Reference

An infelicitously chosen instance of the good omen of a comet may be found in Seneca, 'Nat.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

Incarnacion had so infelicitously celebrated, was walking listlessly in the dust beside his wagon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference

By this word, which had so infelicitously escaped her, Madame had destroyed the whole merit of her sacrifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louise de la Valliere] Reference

Obama was not phrasing things infelicitously or making Freudian slips when he made the lipstick / pig speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE IRATE NATION] Reference

"By the way," interrupted Wiles infelicitously, "where's your young man, -- your private secretary, -- Dobbs?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Mine] Reference

States party, an edict was passed to which, somewhat infelicitously, the name of the "Eternal Edict" was given.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Holland] Reference

The anxieties about "sovereign debt" have been most acute in Europe, where the infelicitously named PIIGS countries-Portugal.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All] Reference

A month ago, Mr. Tharoor had successfully weathered the latest of several controversies triggered by his infelicitously timed or worded statements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

This Irish Oath, of 1774, was accepted by the legislative authorities as proof of loyalty, and it was freely taken, though several clauses were infelicitously worded, though no advantage accrued from so doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

This mention of ` substance 'is unlike Hilary's usual language, and the antithesis between the substance which the Son had not, because He had emptied Himself of it, and the substance which He had, because He had assumed it, is somewhat infelicitously expressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference

He stood for some minutes near the window, looking out at the snow; presently he, approached the hearth, and entered into conversation, but not quite with his usual ease: fit topics did not seem to rise to his lips; he chose them fastidiously, hesitatingly, and consequently infelicitously: he spoke vaguely of Villette -- its inhabitants, its notable sights and buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

We were talking of you only just now, "Mrs. Thorne added infelicitously.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Touch of Sun and Other Stories] Reference

I understood what he meant; perhaps he wrote it infelicitously but I wouldn’t encourage you to get bent out of shape about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on Elsner et al 2006 « Climate Audit] Reference

"sovereign debt" have been most acute in Europe, where the infelicitously named PIIGS countries-Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain-have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference

And this was the only communication I ever had with people of the house, excepting occasional conversations with the dust-colored old woman who cleaned the windows and swept the floors; while, with regard to a dozen or two of lodgers who succeeded each other from time to time in the other disposable rooms of the house, I never saw one of them, nor was acquainted with them otherwise than by footstep, -- and that rather infelicitously at one time, in the case of something which went either upon crutches or wooden legs, and which occupied the room immediately over mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference

(One of these slides is infelicitously titled "Orexigen.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

"I mentioned to you the last time we somewhat infelicitously met that I intended to appeal to another and probably more closely qualified artistic authority on the subject of your so-called Moretto; and I in fact saw the picture half an hour ago with Bardi of Milan, who, there in presence of it, did absolute, did ideal justice, as I had hoped, to the claim I've been making.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outcry] Reference

After this, he calmly worded on, seeming to regard the judge's stinging observation with the same sort of indifference as the lion would a dew-drop on his mane; and having poured out all manner of voluminous bombast, he gradually ran down, and came to a conclusion; then, jumping up refreshed, like the bounding of a tennis-ball, he proceeded to call witnesses; and, judging from what happened at the inquest, as well as because he wished to overwhelm a suspected and suspecting witness, he pounced, somewhat infelicitously, on Jonathan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference