inopportune
adjective
not opportune; inappropriate; inconvenient; untimely or unseasonable.
inopportunely
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a word derived from
inopportune.
Example Sentences
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But this technology is flawed—stupid, even—because the same call to Australia can be placed when a phone is slipped into a pants pocket and gluteal pressure is inopportunely applied.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2019
You will take care to recenter you tie, which you wore inopportunely to the right.
From Newsweek ● Nov. 10, 2012
Warnings are withheld, paths fail to cross, backs are inopportunely turned.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a while real swans were considered, but the marquis felt they might fly away inopportunely.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of my name, as also reason for intruding upon you so inopportunely, I take it this will be sufficient explanation.”
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
