How to Use felicitous in a Sentence

felicitous

adjective

• Ortiz played a felicitous part in the life of Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 10 June 2019
• No doubt all art, low and high, has something of this appetite for felicitous incongruity, the shuffle and the surprise.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2023
• The prose is wonderfully sober and taut, the choices felicitous.
  — James Romm, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• Its name, at first, was the less felicitous Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2018
• That’s the same rationale behind a less felicitous change, the elimination of low-cost drink refills.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• Roth had a felicitous childhood and, even in the annals of fraught literary unions, two of the most miserable and well-documented marriages.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• Many of these mezcal transplants work surprisingly well, given the volatile flavors of the spirit; the mezcal Negroni is an easy and felicitous switcheroo.
  — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• The swimming holes are what happen when the water pauses on its own and, entering into some felicitous arrangement with the rocks and soil, renders a space wide and deep enough to hold some stillness.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2019
• Willie Fulgear, the salvage man who found the 52, got a reward, much felicitous publicity, and a limo and tickets to attend the Oscars, where Billy Crystal saluted him from the stage.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• For Amy Zurek, naming her brand ‘Savette’ after her mother’s maiden name was a felicitous decision.
  — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 24 Nov. 2021
• For once, the open space — an artful assemblage of lawn, pathways, stream, playground, performance stage, and fountain (with the Cipriani establishment along one flank) — feels like the most felicitous part of the compound.
  — Curbed, 27 July 2022
• Three artists with new shows in Seattle galleries provide some felicitous examples.
  — Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
• Moehringer has also bestowed upon Harry the legacy that his father was unable to force on him: a felicitous familiarity with the British literary canon.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
• His prose is prose, definitively prose, anti-felicitous and slightly barbarous.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2021
• Its felicitous mix of precise, classical ballet moves and more playfully inventive ones rewardingly holds the interest of its cast of four men and four women, and along its way engages the viewer.
  — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 18 May 2021
• Northwest takes the form of a felicitous friendship between itinerant baker Cookie and Chinese immigrant King-Lu.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021
• Confirmed by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson — a seminal decision of 1896 that has long been considered one of the court’s least felicitous — the doctrine enfranchised the separation of the races in public facilities.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 21 May 2018
• Searls has understandably chosen to keep Rilke’s side of the correspondence intact, sequestering Kappus’s less felicitous offerings in the second half of the book.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• This is another hybrid Super Audio recording that highlights all of the music’s felicitous details.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 25 June 2018
• And sometimes even the most felicitous convergences result in a cascade of unintended consequences.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• This winter, by some felicitous coincidence, the Wheel of Fortune has delivered two delightful books about Alison.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• This was abetted by many fine moments from the orchestra, including a solemn overture, agitated strings representing thunder, the moment of judgment itself (from horns) and felicitous exchanges of two violins from across the stage.
  — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2017
• The actress’s premiere earrings, with triangular diamonds and sapphires arranged into star shapes, feels felicitous, and even literal, for her ascendance.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, ELLE, 20 Dec. 2022
• The result is an Industrial Park with a felicitous design, a series of buildings with an almost uniform low profile accompanied by attractive landscaping that harmonize with the low density features of the community at large.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019
• William Reynolds' editing gets many opportunities for felicitous comment.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• Some of Sondheim’s best jokes are swallowed up in the imbalance between singers and orchestra, a situation exacerbated by a perhaps unanticipated and more felicitous problem: the audiences’ frequent boisterous response.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• Whatever the motivations for her political 180, Fairbanks’s timing was felicitous.
  — Rebecca Nelson, Cosmopolitan, 18 May 2017

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024