malapropos

"Did she seem to like your advice, Monsieur Malapropos?"

Sheridan formed the name from malapropos, originally meaning "inopportune, unseasonable."

She is disjointed, disorderly, malapropos.

Since the students have studied neither spelling nor vocabulary and never cracked their Economic Citizenship textbook, the advice could not have been more malapropos.

We stood on the platform in a row looking like a malapropos chorus line--tall, short, plump, thin--but all with batwing capes and peacock brooches!

And in several of these random instances of pleonasm, truism, kinky syntax, malapropos metaphor, and just plain dumb things to say, I perceived the moroxonic spirit at work.

Sheridan presumably chose her name in humorous reference to the word malapropos, an adjective or adverb meaning "inappropriate" or "inappropriately", derived from the French phrase, mal à propos (literally "poorly placed").

The Scranton regional manager, Michael Scott (Steve Carell), is a master of the malapropos joke who despite crushing evidence believes that he is a born comedian and that his employees admire him.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of "malapropos" in English is from 1630, and the first person known to have used the word "malaprop" in the sense of "a speech error" is Lord Byron in 1814.

And I know that he was suspelled or expended, I don't remember which, but it was something bad, and Aunt Clara cried," added Jamie all in one breath, for he possessed a fatal gift of making malapropos remarks, which caused him to be a terror to his family.