badly timed
Example Sentences
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A badly timed misstep or decision will have more spillovers now.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 11, 2025
Their strong start, which featured an NHL-record 11-game road winning streak from the beginning of the season, fizzled into a parade of close losses, defensive blunders, missed scoring chances, and badly timed penalties.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2024
Those masks also have costs for the people forced to wear them, as I recently found out when a series of badly timed connecting flights sent me sprinting through airports in my mask.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2022
Historically weak government finances, badly timed tax cuts and the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit the lucrative tourism industry and foreign remittances, have wreaked havoc on the economy, leading to a currency devaluation last week.
From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2022
It seems to be the fate of strikes to be badly timed; they usually occur when, on account of hard times or over-supply, the employers would rather stop paying wages than not.
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams
