Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Done or occurring at an inappropriate time; untimely.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not at a suitable time; unseasonable; inopportune.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time; occurring at an inappropriate time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Occurring at an unfavourable or inappropriate
time ;untimely
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective badly timed
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Examples
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called on NATO allies and other nations with troops in Afghanistan not to make what he called "ill-timed, precipitous, or uncoordinated" withdrawals after the United States begins its gradual drawdown in July.
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Still, critics used the ill-timed trip as evidence of Alliot-Marie's cozy relations with Ben Ali and suggested that was why she was slow to speak out in support of anti-government protesters.
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And all of these, as we know, come with a hefty price tag -- ill-timed as we continue to see stagnant job growth and unemployment numbers.
Blanche Lincoln: Avoid Extremes to Solve our Nation's Problems Blanche Lincoln 2011
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The German government injected €18.2 billion the bank at the height of the financial crisis, when Commerzbank got deep in the red due to an ill-timed acquisition of Dresdner Bank.
Commerzbank Shares Drop After Capital Increase Klaus Brune 2011
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And all of these, as we know, come with a hefty price tag -- ill-timed as we continue to see stagnant job growth and unemployment numbers.
Blanche Lincoln: Avoid Extremes to Solve our Nation's Problems Blanche Lincoln 2011
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Or the purposely ill-timed Spirit Airlines ads about oil on the beaches of the Gulf Coast?
WATCH: The Most Over-The-Top Tourism Ad Ever? Kate Auletta 2011
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He has said he would limit himself to teaching if he returned, and his spokeswoman rejected the notion his return would be ill-timed.
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And all of these, as we know, come with a hefty price tag -- ill-timed as we continue to see stagnant job growth and unemployment numbers.
Blanche Lincoln: Avoid Extremes to Solve our Nation's Problems Blanche Lincoln 2011
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Or the purposely ill-timed Spirit Airlines ads about oil on the beaches of the Gulf Coast?
WATCH: The Most Over-The-Top Tourism Ad Ever? Kate Auletta 2011
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And all of these, as we know, come with a hefty price tag -- ill-timed as we continue to see stagnant job growth and unemployment numbers.
Blanche Lincoln: Avoid Extremes to Solve our Nation's Problems Blanche Lincoln 2011
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