badly timed
Example Sentences
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A badly timed misstep or decision will have more spillovers now.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2025
Guardiola's public admonishment of his striker at half-time was not just badly timed and unnecessary but an appalling display of arrogance.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023
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
A combination of historically weak government finances, badly timed tax cuts and the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit the country’s lucrative tourism industry and foreign remittances, have wreaked havoc on Sri Lanka’s economy.
From Reuters ● Mar. 11, 2022
The blows showered at him lacked steam and were badly timed as to distance.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by William MacLeod Raine
