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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

Once he imitated his employer so successfully that the latter, arriving inopportunely, became angry and instantly discharged him.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Time had done its work ridiculously, inopportunely, yet effectively at last.

From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus




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