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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

John Barrymore is another actor who has been known to belabor audiences, though generally for giggling inopportunely, rather than for negligence.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a while real swans were considered, but the marquis felt they might fly away inopportunely.

From Time Magazine Archive

But perhaps it was somewhat early to start a concert, and the dilettanti, awakened inopportunely, would not, perhaps, pay him in current coin of the realm.

From Round the World in Eighty Days by Verne, Jules

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