Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inopportune manner; unseasonably; at an inconvenient time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
inopportune manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb at an inconvenient time
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Examples
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This stratagem would permit him not only to take action against plausible suspects, given the hostility between those of Ar and Cos, this perhaps diverting attention from he true murderers, those in the pay of the ubar, but would give him a convenient pretext for ridding himself of possibly dangerous strangers, strangers who might, sooner or later, inopportunely comment on the anomaly of one from Cos,
Cinnamon Roll 2010
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The last thing they needed was an inopportunely placed rock or a gaping hole to snap off a piece of their landing gear, or worse.
The Athena Project Brad Thor 2010
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To make matters worse, a small chime began tinkling inopportunely from the tomb chapel, but the artist waved his raised hand wildly, and the chime stopped.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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Another on the left knee that had happened during a sledding accident when an inopportunely placed tree branch, covered with snow, stabbed him right through the leg of his favorite jeans.
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But this realpolitik approach acknowledges that nothing she could have said would change anything for now, and would only inopportunely sour vital relations and detract from 'big picture' goals.
Stuart Whatley: Clinton In Asia: Between China And A Hard Place 2009
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Alan Duncan today joins a rogues' gallery of the rich and infamous to have been caught on tape making their private thoughts inopportunely public.
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Another on the left knee that had happened during a sledding accident when an inopportunely placed tree branch, covered with snow, stabbed him right through the leg of his favorite jeans.
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The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced Andre
Les Miserables 2008
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I don't know what to expect, who to turn to, and where my bladder might inopportunely rear it's annoyingly little head.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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I don't know what to expect, who to turn to, and where my bladder might inopportunely rear it's annoyingly little head.
In Training 2006
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