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ILL-TIMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Badly timed
Example:
it was the wrong moment for a joke
Synonyms:
ill-timed; unseasonable; untimely; wrong
Classified under:
Similar:
inopportune (not opportune)
Context examples:
This ill-timed intruder was Miss Tilney's maid, sent by her mistress to be of use to Miss Morland; and though Catherine immediately dismissed her, it recalled her to the sense of what she ought to be doing, and forced her, in spite of her anxious desire to penetrate this mystery, to proceed in her dressing without further delay.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Julia's looks were an evidence of the fact that made it indisputable; and after the first starts and exclamations, not a word was spoken for half a minute: each with an altered countenance was looking at some other, and almost each was feeling it a stroke the most unwelcome, most ill-timed, most appalling!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
That her manner was wrong, however, at times very wrong, her measures often ill-chosen and ill-timed, and her looks and language very often indefensible, Fanny could not cease to feel; but she began to hope they might be rectified.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
