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ill-timed

ADJECTIVE
  1. badly timed
    an ill-timed intervention
    an untimely remark
    you think my intrusion unseasonable
    it was the wrong moment for a joke

How To Use ill-timed In A Sentence

  • This amusing little bon mot v ill-timed by me as I think she had post-traumatic test disorder because she burst into tears. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • Both the Indian and Pakistani press chastised Mr. Pillai's ill-timed public divulgence, though it doesn't diminish the veracity of his statement in any way. Michael Hughes: India Too Complacent About Pakistan Complicity in Mumbai Attacks
  • It was the Boer way of saying "bosh" to our ill-timed boast that the war was over. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
  • He has said he would limit himself to teaching if he returned, and his spokeswoman rejected the notion his return would be ill-timed. US Wary of Aristide's Return to Haiti
  • Misty's voice brought Ri back out of her ill-timed contemplations.
  • Often those attempting something positive were scythed down by ill-timed interventions.
  • Still, critics used the ill-timed trip as evidence of Alliot-Marie's cozy relations with Ben Ali and suggested that was why she was slow to speak out in support of anti-government protesters. Sarkozy Asks Ministers To Take Vacation In France
  • However, a silence was ill-timed, and though not so designed, might be deemed by some a kind of connivance; for a rising heresy seeks to carry on its work under ground without noise: it is a fire which spreads itself under cover. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • It isn't just the ill-timed expansion that's spooking investors.
  • But that's merely the beginning of this ill-conceived, ill-timed and epically copy-cattish endeavor, from the cover - a clumsy, solipsistic shot of a woman in a WSJ paper dress (a strange and otherwise un-referenced homage to the 1960s) - to the head-scratching organizing principle of the TOC. Adam Hanft: I.O.A. -- The Wall Street Journal Magazine is Irrelevant On Arrival
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