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ill-timedˌill-ˈtimed adjective - His remarks are ill-timed and inappropriate.
- After an unfortunate and ill-timed brush with the law, it was almost impossible for Marinello to arrest his downward spiral.
- Choose your method: Stupid penalties, ill-timed turnovers, the works.
- I should have thought it was very ill-timed to feature this.
- It was as if an ill-timed or ill-executed gesture on his part and his world would collapse.
the wrong time or a bad time for something► the wrong time a time when you should not do something, because you will probably not be successful: · It's a case of the right idea at the wrong time.the wrong time to do something: · I think this is the wrong time to ask for a pay increase.· It seemed like the wrong time in my life to risk making yet another major change. ► a bad time/not a good time a time when something is not convenient or likely to be successful or that will cause problems: · I really would like to come, but I'm afraid this is a bad time.to do something: · If it's not a good time to talk, I can call back. ► come at a bad time/come at the wrong time/not come at a good time to happen at a time when something it not likely to be successful or that will cause problems: · These economic problems have come at the wrong time for the Republican Party.· The widening trade gap is coming at a bad time for the president.· The COE's resignation has not come at a good time for the company. ► be no time/not be the time an expression meaning to be the wrong time to do something, use this especially when you are telling someone what they should do or how they should behave: be no time/not be the time for: · This is no time for that kind of talk. If you can't be decent, keep your mouth shut.· It's not the time for politeness and etiquette when there are lives at stake.be no time/not be the time to do something: · This was not the time to get angry, but Jodie couldn't help herself. ► badly timed/ill-timed done at the wrong time so that it is likely to have an unsuccessful result: · Wilkins' outburst could not have been more ill-timed.· Resentment over the chairman's badly timed remarks is growing.· The gesture was sincere, but ill-timed. ► an inopportune moment/time formal a bad time, especially because it is inconvenient : · He had wanted to visit the troops over Christmas, but the general said it would be an inopportune time.· He always seems to say exactly the wrong thing at the most inopportune moment. happening, done, or said at the wrong time OPP well-timed: His remarks were ill-timed. |