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But this technology is flawed—stupid, even—because the same call to Australia can be placed when a phone is slipped into a pants pocket and gluteal pressure is inopportunely applied.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2019

You will take care to recenter you tie, which you wore inopportunely to the right.

From Newsweek ● Nov. 10, 2012

John Barrymore is another actor who has been known to belabor audiences, though generally for giggling inopportunely, rather than for negligence.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a while real swans were considered, but the marquis felt they might fly away inopportunely.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not immediately, not inopportunely, but in the right season?

From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl


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