badly timed
Example Sentences
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A badly timed misstep or decision will have more spillovers now.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 11, 2025
After the defeat by Afghanistan in Delhi, with Stokes now available after his badly timed hip injury, that plan was jettisoned as six specialist batters and five specialist bowlers were selected to play South Africa.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023
A combination of historically weak government finances, badly timed tax cuts and the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit the country’s lucrative tourism industry and foreign remittances, have wreaked havoc on Sri Lanka’s economy.
From Reuters • Mar. 11, 2022
It’s probably not revealing too much to note that a badly timed 4*Town concert will factor heavily into the plot, or that the band’s songs are velvety earworms of the highest order.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2022
As the mail-boat headed through the pass, the badly timed reports announced the end of Don Vincente Ribiera's first official visit to Sulaco, and for Captain Mitchell the end of another "historic occasion."
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph
