unfelicitous

Well, in one sense there is none, because I do not regard the justification for education as "investment in human capital" in that unfelicitous phrase of the Sixties.

Canada's Economy—Can We Advance Back to Reason? 1975

"Investment in human capital" - that most unfelicitous phrase-was a concept that I for one argued against rather forcefully, because I believed-and still believe-that education is more than an economic process, more than a means to an end, and more than mere occupational training, but that it is a prerequisite of a civilized society and a process whose intrinsic worth has been demonstrated many times over.

Universities: Who Needs Them? 1974

By an unfelicitous chance she was placed in the same study with Lady

When Patty Went to College 1903

By an unfelicitous chance she was placed in the same study with Lady Clara Vere de Vere and

When Patty Went to College Jean Webster 1896

He was a powerful man, with a good-humored face, and, in spite of his unfelicitous nickname of

Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte 1869

John was now preparing for his visit to Ireland, and his singularly unfelicitous attempt at royalty.

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

"Fleda, my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a-jarring – "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment – I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears', without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife."

Queechy 1854

"Fleda my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a jarring, -- "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment -- I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears' without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife."

Queechy Susan Warner 1852

"Fleda, my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a-jarring — "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment — I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears', without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife."

Queechy, Volume II Susan Warner 1852

It is true that I judge those Princes unfelicitous who, to assure their state when the multitude is hostile, have to take extraordinary means; for he who has only a few enemies can easily and without great scandals make sure of them, but he who has the general public hostile to him can never make sure of them, and the more cruelty he uses, so much more weak becomes his Principate; so that the best remedy he has is to seek to make the People friendly.

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