verbal infelicity

And he has won an uneviable reputation for verbal infelicity.

Still there the opacities and self-contradictions, the verbal infelicities, the thundering announcements of the obvious or dubious.

That's not just because of his youth, lack of experience, questionable academic record and Vietnam War record; it's more importantly because of the immaturity, verbal infelicity and ignorance he has demonstrated so far in his campaign.

It is these verbal infelicities, this fondness for "Ivyspeak," more than anything else, that has created his "wimp" image and prompted savage barbs from the press, from television comedians, from Democrats and, privately, from some Republicans.