inopportunely

Example Sentences

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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

Later they anxiously saw the play made into a movie with John Barrymore as the demented musician-father who recovers inopportunely and not too convincingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of them have mysterious husbands who burst into bedrooms inopportunely, badger innocent Communists into selling State secrets.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed such a far back event—it and the individual whose existence it so inopportunely recalled—and withal such an insignificant one.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram