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

Once he imitated his employer so successfully that the latter, arriving inopportunely, became angry and instantly discharged him.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I have been waiting so long for an opportunity of saying this to you that you will forgive me if I seem a little abrupt and choose my time inopportunely.

From Imprudence by Young, F.E. Mills