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inopportune

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[ US /ˌɪˌnɑpɝˈtun/ ]
[ UK /ɪnɒpətjˈuːn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not opportune
    an inopportune visit
    arrived at a most inopportune hour

How To Use inopportune In A Sentence

  • This is an unhelpful hyperbole, but it is certainly true that there must be contexts in which a statement of these truths is politically inopportune.
  • But it was too late; the consulting detective had blinked away; his mirthfulness, manifesting itself at the most inopportune times, An East Wind Coming
  • But I'm learning to accept my awkwardness and lack of loving the social element at seemingly inopportune times.
  • You might have planned out a whole series of attacks, but one inopportune roll and your turn is over.
  • A fault of mine had always been that the most acidic responses came to mind at the most inopportune times.
  • When the initial shock wore off I think we all felt a bit cheated that such a huge bombshell should be dropped at such an inopportune moment.
  • His thoughts went back, inopportunely enough, to the time when he had been surgeon's dresser in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
  • Rashard Lewis tended to vanish at inopportune moments.
  • He couldn't help but blush every time she caught him staring in her direction and he'd often find himself dreaming of her at the most inopportune moments.
  • As a rule, I can put off these inopportune demands.
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