ill-timed
IPA: ɪɫtˈaɪmd
adjective
- Occurring at an unfavourable or inappropriate time; untimely
Examples of "ill-timed" in Sentences
- Or the purposely ill-timed Spirit Airlines ads about oil on the beaches of the Gulf Coast?
- He has said he would limit himself to teaching if he returned, and his spokeswoman rejected the notion his return would be ill-timed.
- And all of these, as we know, come with a hefty price tag -- ill-timed as we continue to see stagnant job growth and unemployment numbers.
- The German government injected €18.2 billion the bank at the height of the financial crisis, when Commerzbank got deep in the red due to an ill-timed acquisition of Dresdner Bank.
- Still, critics used the ill-timed trip as evidence of Alliot-Marie's cozy relations with Ben Ali and suggested that was why she was slow to speak out in support of anti-government protesters.
- U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called on NATO allies and other nations with troops in Afghanistan not to make what he called "ill-timed, precipitous, or uncoordinated" withdrawals after the United States begins its gradual drawdown in July.