See infelicitous on Wiktionary
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"w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "13 62 25", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Polish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "6 73 21", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Russian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "6 74 20", "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Spanish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "3 61 36", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Pragmatics", "orig": "en:Pragmatics", "parents": [ "Linguistics", "Language", "Social sciences", "Communication", "Sciences", "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1909, William MacLeod Raine, “chapter 24”, in Ridgway of Montana:", "text": "\"Now, you've got just grounds for shooting me,\" he said gaily, and instantly regretted his infelicitous remark.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done." ], "id": "en-infelicitous-en-adj-FxJ8qsdb", 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or done", "word": "uheldig" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "onneton" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "surkea" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "malheureux" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "maladroit" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "inadéquat" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "gauche" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "unglücklich" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "ungeschickt" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "uheldig" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "neuméstnyj", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "неуме́стный" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "nepodxodjáščij", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "неподходя́щий" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "neudáčnyj", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "неуда́чный" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "torpe" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "impropio" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "aciago" }, { "_dis1": "2 92 6", "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "inadecuado" } ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Linguistics", "orig": "en:Linguistics", "parents": [ "Language", "Social sciences", "Communication", "Sciences", "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "Of a sentence or utterance: not semantically and pragmatically coherent." ], "id": "en-infelicitous-en-adj-vaKfp5Wu", "links": [ [ "linguistics", "linguistics" ], [ "sentence", 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not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "malheureux" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "maladroit" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "inadéquat" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "gauche" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "unglücklich" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "ungeschickt" }, { "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "word": "uheldig" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "neuméstnyj", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "неуме́стный" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "roman": "nepodxodjáščij", "sense": "inappropriate or awkward; 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