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
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 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
