Definition of "unfelicitous" []

• Not felicitous; unhappy, unfortunate. (adjective)

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