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Malapropos

adjective
1.
Of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature.
adverb
1.
At an inconvenient time.  Synonym: inopportunely.  "She answered malapropos"





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"Malapropos" Quotes from Famous Books



... with much disappointment that we found the channel occupied, at low-water, by a mere rivulet, draining the extensive mud flats then left uncovered. Hope, however, though somewhat sobered, was not altogether destroyed by this malapropos discovery, and we still looked forward with an interest but little abated, to the results of a complete ...
— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. • J Lort Stokes
... Miss Malapropos, "how I could let you know what mother thought." She never once suggested his bringing the dog for inspection, as he had brought the other, or calling ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Sarah Tytler


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