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Meanings of unseasonable in English

Badly timed.

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Not in keeping with (and usually undesirable for) the season.

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Examples for "wrong"
Examples for "wrong"
1
Europe is, quite simply, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Reuters
2
But, as the new year violence illustrates, something has gone badly wrong.
The Guardian
3
Sponsors are, however, protected from market risk if a deal goes wrong.
Reuters
4
Eight reports concerned the wrong patient, wrong procedure or wrong treatment site.
Radio NZ
5
A euro zone budget would set exactly the wrong incentives, Lambsdorff said.
Reuters
1
Worry never benefited anyone; it has brought thousands to an untimely grave.
Vitality Supreme
2
Your editor in chief's untimely departure will create problems in the newsroom.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
3
Latterly, news of untimely deaths has been in our thoughts and prayers.
The Irish Times
4
The shades were drawn down, and they sat in an untimely twilight.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
5
So the experiment of consulting the police came to an untimely end.
My Lady's Money
1
But critics of the administration called the unusually large lease sale ill-timed.
Reuters
2
They talked earnestly about the ill-timed strike of the millmen at home.
The Harris-Ingram Experiment
3
He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.
Sense and Sensibility
4
A murmur of disapproval went through the crowd at this ill-timed joke.
Garman and Worse: A Norwegian Novel
5
Lorand was annoyed by the ill-timed jest which he did not understand.
Debts of Honor
Usage of unseasonable in English
1
The warm weather held on, though unseasonable so early in the year.
Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
2
An unseasonable storm it was, for the winter had hardly set in.
The Frontiersmen
3
This day the Parliament kept a fast for the present unseasonable weather.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
4
But the exuberance of the welcome made up for the unseasonable weather.
The Irish Times
5
Mr. Ricker removed his unseasonable headgear and moved nearer to the stove.
Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks
6
This is the price paid by age for unseasonable ardours of feeling.
The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of St...
7
The Scotch seem to me to get drunk at very unseasonable hours.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
8
But it would be unseasonable to touch this subject farther just now.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
9
They will be preoccupied, for the most part, with unseasonable little concerns.
Alone
10
I said of course not, shrugging my shoulders at his unseasonable impatience.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
11
Returning from one of these unseasonable rambles, I chanced to meet you.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
12
I beseech you that you show not an unseasonable good-will towards me.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
13
Three teenage girls sit outside in a golden splash of unseasonable warmth.
The Irish Times
14
The elk answered: Sagacious, long-eared associate, what an unseasonable proposal is this?
Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers
15
Why don't you ask why I am wearing such apparently unseasonable clothes?
Mark Twain's Speeches
16
Why did you the other day, oh unseasonable and too officious friends!
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; /...
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