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inopportune
adjective as in not appropriate or suitable
Example Sentences
In Ridgewood, New Jersey, where he was raising his family, he oversaw his suburban town’s Little League, applying these same beliefs about the inopportune mix of girls and sports.
For the Lebanese, the war comes at an inopportune moment.
But two of the most inopportune vice presidential picks of modern times — Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin — had no significant bearing on their running mates’ fortunes.
“You have a wildfire that is coming at a very inopportune time for the species and a wildfire that’s being driven by a hundred years of fire suppression activities and a warming climate.”
Despite an expensive and ambitious antipollution initiative, officials acknowledge that a single drenching downpour at an inopportune moment could send a surge of sewage into the waterway.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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