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felicitously

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fe·lic·i·tous  (f-ls-ts)
adj.
1. Admirably suited; apt: a felicitous comparison.
2. Exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style: a felicitous writer.
3. Marked by happiness or good fortune: a felicitous life.

fe·lici·tous·ly adv.
fe·lici·tous·ness n.
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Adv.1.felicitously - in a felicitous manner; "a not felicitously chosen word"
infelicitously - in an infelicitous manner; "he chose his words rather infelicitously"

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Rearranging my collar, which, truth to say, ought to have been a round one above a short jacket, but was not, I observed felicitously that I had come to say good-bye, being ready to go off to sea that very night with the Tremolino.
"Truly, you did well," said the Marquis, felicitously sensible that such vermin were not to ruffle him, "to see a thief accompanying my carriage, and not open that great mouth of yours.
Brooke read them, seemed felicitously worded-- surprisingly the right thing, and determined a sequel which he had never before thought of.
 
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