badly timed
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A badly timed misstep or decision will have more spillovers now.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2025
Those masks also have costs for the people forced to wear them, as I recently found out when a series of badly timed connecting flights sent me sprinting through airports in my mask.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022
Historically weak government finances, badly timed tax cuts and the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit the lucrative tourism industry and foreign remittances, have wreaked havoc on the economy, leading to a currency devaluation last week.
From Reuters ● Mar. 15, 2022
It’s probably not revealing too much to note that a badly timed 4*Town concert will factor heavily into the plot, or that the band’s songs are velvety earworms of the highest order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2022
As the mail-boat headed through the pass, the badly timed reports announced the end of Don Vincente Ribiera's first official visit to Sulaco, and for Captain Mitchell the end of another "historic occasion."
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
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