All 3 Uses of
apropos
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Also, without being actually positive, it struck him a great field was to be opened up in the line of opening up new routes to keep pace with the times apropos of the Fishguard-Rosslare route which, it was mooted, was once more on the tapis in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally.†
Chpt 16
- —Our mutual friend's stories are like himself, Mr Bloom apropos of knives remarked to his confidante sotto voce.†
Chpt 16 *
- And apropos of coffin of stones the analogy was not at all bad as it was in fact a stoning to death on the part of seventytwo out of eighty odd constituencies that ratted at the time of the split and chiefly the belauded peasant class, probably the selfsame evicted tenants he had put in their holdings.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(apropos as in: unusual attire, but apropos) appropriate; or in reference (to something)