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Meanings of unpunctual in English

Not punctual; after the appointed time.

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        Usage of unpunctual in English
        1
        The distance was considerable, and the train service greatly disordered and unpunctual.
        With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
        2
        But Lucy at last was unpunctual in her visits to the Wilderness.
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
        3
        But of all men alive Dolly Longstaff was the most unpunctual.
        The Duke's Children
        4
        As boys, they were late at school, and unpunctual in their home duties.
        The True Citizen: How to Become One
        5
        Maria received the unpunctual governess with her ready smile, and her appropriate speech.
        Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time
        6
        Others waited for unpunctual friends with protesting and frequent examination of their watches.
        The Man Who Knew
        7
        I do not wish to run any risk of being unpunctual.'
        The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
        8
        I'm so sorry, because it vexes papa to have us unpunctual.
        Christmas with Grandma Elsie
        9
        It's odd that even at your father's funeral you should be so unpunctual.
        Crime and Punishment
        10
        Mr. Cæsar, feeling that the class was a trifle unpunctual in starting, hurriedly entered.
        Tell England / A Study in a Generation
        11
        The vicar and his wife and daughter waited fussily for Maisie, an unpunctual damsel.
        The Fortunate Youth
        12
        Don't be unpunctual to-morrow on that account; I am as regular as clock-work generally.
        No Name
        13
        According to my cousin, the first-night deadheads, as a body, are unpunctual and unappreciative.
        Our Stage and Its Critics / By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gaze...
        14
        To touch drugs habitually is to become hopelessly unpunctual, untruthful, callously selfish and insincere.
        The Soul of a Bishop
        15
        Something will stand against your name, there, worse than a mark for being unpunctual.
        Hatty and Marcus / or, First Steps in the Better Path
        16
        How can we go on if you are so unpunctual?
        The Three Clerks
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