Thesaurus / ill-timed

ill-timed

How to use ill-timed in a sentence

Your visit here is ill-timed; you ought to feel it so; nevertheless, if you stay it out, you must observe good manners.

Our derisive remarks about people who are for ever looking for snakes in every brush-pile were ill-timed, to say the least.

Yet it was the hand of the emperor which he had advised the King of Naples to force, by his ill-timed advance.

But while he sadly acknowledged the truth of Bridgenorth's observation, he felt indignant at his ill-timed triumph.

A murmur of disapproval went through the crowd at this ill-timed joke.

GARMAN AND WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLAND

But her plan, though well formed, had fixed upon an ill-timed moment for its execution.

CAMILLAFANNY BURNEY

But, oh Sir Ingelric, thy treachery is ill-laid and ill-timed, thy cunning is foolishness.

A good deal of inflammatory language was indulged in, but the attacks were ill-timed and unimportant.

I did not catch this prayer, but Mr. Jope reported it to me as he resumed his seat, with an ill-timed laugh.

THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY REVELSIR ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH

Is Count Heindrich to receive no order, or is this some ill-timed pleasantry on your part?

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985