inopportunely

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

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

Warnings are withheld, paths fail to cross, backs are inopportunely turned.

From Time Magazine Archive

It struck the abb� as not at all improbable that Mademoiselle Toinon had written to him anent the cake fiasco, and that her lover might inopportunely arrive to look after her safety.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis