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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

Most of them have mysterious husbands who burst into bedrooms inopportunely, badger innocent Communists into selling State secrets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Later they anxiously saw the play made into a movie with John Barrymore as the demented musician-father who recovers inopportunely and not too convincingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Similar, in its trickiness, to the relation of opposites is the effect of any other facile association which may under certain circumstances arise most inopportunely.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud




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