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Meanings of ill-timed in English
Synonyms
Examples for "wrong"
Examples for "wrong"
1
Europe is, quite simply, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
2
But, as the new year violence illustrates, something has gone badly wrong.
3
Sponsors are, however, protected from market risk if a deal goes wrong.
4
Eight reports concerned the wrong patient, wrong procedure or wrong treatment site.
5
A euro zone budget would set exactly the wrong incentives, Lambsdorff said.
1
Worry never benefited anyone; it has brought thousands to an untimely grave.
2
Your editor in chief's untimely departure will create problems in the newsroom.
3
Latterly, news of untimely deaths has been in our thoughts and prayers.
4
The shades were drawn down, and they sat in an untimely twilight.
5
So the experiment of consulting the police came to an untimely end.
1
The warm weather held on, though unseasonable so early in the year.
2
An unseasonable storm it was, for the winter had hardly set in.
3
This day the Parliament kept a fast for the present unseasonable weather.
4
But the exuberance of the welcome made up for the unseasonable weather.
5
Mr. Ricker removed his unseasonable headgear and moved nearer to the stove.
Usage of ill-timed in English
1
But critics of the administration called the unusually large lease sale ill-timed.
2
They talked earnestly about the ill-timed strike of the millmen at home.
3
He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.
4
A murmur of disapproval went through the crowd at this ill-timed joke.
5
Lorand was annoyed by the ill-timed jest which he did not understand.
6
Extra insight around the late-evening may be ill-timed, but ultimately very useful!
7
At that time I considered their demand for wages ill-timed and grasping.
8
South Sudan researcher Alan Boswell said Ajongo's death was ill-timed for Kiir.
9
Supposing you are saying this seriously and not as some ill-timed jest.
10
Now that storm clouds are gathering, Osborne's austerity looks even more ill-timed.
11
It was, lest Joe Devins should spoil it all by ill-timed words.
12
So I ignored Mr. Tucker's ill-timed remark and proceeded to be sociable.
13
I thought Louis's attempt at jocularity most ill-timed, but I said nothing.
14
We will abandon Labour's grotesquely ill-conceived and ill-timed new tax on family cars.
15
The jest was ill-timed; he was in too bitter a mood.
16
An ill-timed move would foil them even as success was in their grasp.
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