Advertisement

View definitions for unpunctual

unpunctual

adjective as in belated

adverb as in late

adverb as in tardily

Discover More

Example Sentences

I glanced at Herbert’s home, and at his character, and at his having no means but such as he was dependent on his father for; those, uncertain and unpunctual.

It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains.

Mr. Biden’s championing of the science post and its unpunctual start have raised a number of questions: What do White House science advisers actually do?

In his piece, Parker wrote that “O’Brien’s instinct for stage-managing and self-fashioning remains undimmed” and that she “often writes about people who have been let down, one way or another, and at a quotidian level she seems most comfortable when registering discomfort… I came to think that, were O’Brien given a choice between a punctual guest and a mortified, unpunctual one, she would opt for the latter.”

“When I encounter cruelty or a real lack of consideration or rudeness from people, I will do everything to either avoid them or expose them,” he adds, telling me a story of dressing down a fellow actor who was “notoriously unpunctual”.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement