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Inopportunely

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in·op·por·tune  (n-pr-tn, -tyn)
adj.
Inappropriate or ill-timed; not opportune.
in·oppor·tunely adv.
in·oppor·tuneness n.
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Adv.1.inopportunely - at an inconvenient time; "he arrived inopportunely just as we sat down for dinner"; "she answered malapropos"
malapropos
opportunely - at an opportune time; "he arrived rather opportunely just when we needed a new butler"


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the door of the reserved gallery which had hitherto remained so inopportunely closed, opened still more inopportunely; and the ringing voice of the usher announced abruptly, "His eminence, Monseigneur the Cardinal de Bourbon.
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