inapposite

First, she draws a singularly inapposite analogy between the Wachtler tragedy and the Clarence Thomas fiasco.

According to the OED , a wellerism is "a form of comparison in which a familiar saying or proverb is identified, often punningly, with what was said by someone in a specified but humorously inapposite situation."

This brother and sister deck out their new songs with ugly synthesizer tones, garbagy drum sounds, horrid collisions of video-game noises and joltingly inapposite secondary melodies in the middle of songs that were doing quite well on their own.

And while the authors' intent is to place their subject in his historical context, at times the excursions into Irish social and political history can seem like exercises in the manufacture of bricks without straw (given John Stanislaus's penchant for the failing enterprise, a not wholly inapposite activity on the authors' part).