inopportune

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  1. adjective Inappropriate or ill-timed; not opportune.

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  • But I really fear to exhaust your patience by giving you proofs of mine...consider therefore this project of the Quartets as not having been proposed if it seems to you inopportune, and pray accept, my dear sir, the expression of my very sincere and devoted sentiments. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
  • But—forgive me for being inopportune, but I have only the cause of peace at heart. —  Carr, John F, Kalvan Kingmaker (v1.0) (html).html
  • “I hope you will not consider me inopportune, but I think you ought to know, without any further delay on my part, that the work for which you engaged me has been done.” Miss Fane regarded her with some surprise. —  The Chinese Shawl - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 05
  • Even PAN's federal leadership thought the measure went too far or perhaps it was inopportune - six elections for positions of governor are scheduled for this year, along with elections for the lower house of the Mexican Congress. —  India eNews
  • I cannot go without this dress: all my other toilets have been seen more than once in public; and this one was sure to create a sensation,--was planned for this very occasion I fear my visit is inopportune, and ought to be shortened," replied Maurice, for the agitated manner and troubled look of Madame de Fleury made him feel that he must be an intruder. —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
 

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  1. = French inopportun = Spanish inoportuno = Portuguese Italian inopportuno, from Latin inopportunus, unsuitable, from in- privative + opportunus, suitable: see opportune.
 

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/ɪnɑpərˈtjun/
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