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Significados de infelicity em inglês

Inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)

Uso de infelicity em inglês
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Here we trace the origin of the infelicity of this religious household.
Female Scripture Biography, Volume I
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Senator Boompointer, unconscious of any infelicity in his interruption, was calmly waiting.
Clarence
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The old philosopher feared that family pride might cause domestic infelicity.
The Chinese Boy and Girl
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Her essential infelicity was as profound and as enigmatic as ever.
Hilda Lessways
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Marital infelicity followed, A. having an affair with Mrs. Abraham's maid.
Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date / Biographical Dictionary of the...
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With singular infelicity this spot was chosen as the site of the new colony.
France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France ...
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The words were hardly spoken when she realized their infelicity.
The House of Mirth
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But even while making this resolution with characteristic infelicity he blundered into the room.
Frontier Stories
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Went on the puppet stage for a few hundred years, displaying her domestic infelicity.
Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date / Biographical Dictionary of the...
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He had seen naught but a dogged and eternal infelicity.
The Roll-Call
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And yet rather early in Dickens's married life there was more or less infelicity.
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 4
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Sometimes this profound infelicity of hers changed its hues for an instant, and lo!
Hilda Lessways
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No impropriety or infelicity had been permitted to mar the smooth texture of its surface.
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive...
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To me there is no hint in the story of the infelicity Mr. Frohman hinted at.
Bambi
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But it will involve us in great difficulties and infelicity to be now deprived of them.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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Peradventure the Epiphany, by some periodical infelicity, would, once in six years, merge in a Sabbath.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Las...
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