1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), IV. 487. In principle, the arrangement [is] … correct, howsoever in the application misguided and unfelicitous.
1876. M. Collins, Midnight to Midn., III. viii. 136. Let us predict for them premature and unfelicitous exit into the land of scoundrels.
