[
US
/ˌɪˌnɑpɝˈtun/
]
[ UK /ɪnɒpətjˈuːn/ ]
[ UK /ɪnɒpətjˈuːn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not opportune
an inopportune visit
arrived at a most inopportune hour
How To Use inopportune In A Sentence
- Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega has said that relations between Britain and Spain "are those of allies and friendly nations", but she said Spain considered the visit "inopportune". Well, diddums
- These facts can, of course, be brought to one's attention by unmeant gestures or inopportune intrusions.
- They often tried to force the play early and, with unforced errors also creeping in at inopportune times, they rarely completed sets of six.
- Billy is a teenage shutterbug who always seems to cram his camera in the most inopportune places.
- Same with her car, which had a way of breaking down at the most inopportune of spots. SUDDENLY
- Again, though, a lot of people made uncharacteristic mistakes at inopportune moments that cost Scotland dearly.
- That was before he started writing books ‘from the inside’ and publishing them at very inopportune moments.
- In terms of the world context, this is probably one of the most inopportune moments to announce further cuts to royalties and taxes.
- Sir Granite had returned most unexpectedly, at a moment that could best be described as inopportune. Sir Apropos of Nothing
- Sometimes, it is true, he did slip down to the corner for maybe zwei glasses of beer and a game of pinocle; but then, likely as not, there would come inopportunely a towheaded descendant to tell him Mommer needed him back at the flat right away to mind the baby while she went marketing or to the movies. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights