Adjective : An untimely downpour stopped the game. ,his untimely demise. From Dictionary.com.
I have to add that your observations about “untimeliness” make no sense to me. From Wordnik.com. [Writing and Failure (Part 4) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
However, one of the great virtues of Mark E Smith has been his power of untimeliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference
Since this is a story people have been following on TV, isn't the News cover risking untimeliness?. From Wordnik.com. [Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?] Reference
Words alone cannot express my personal anguish at the untimeliness of his death and the great burden it places on you, McGonagle began. From Wordnik.com. [The Attack on the Liberty] Reference
Then one avoids the objection of the untimeliness of string theory, since it never will be relevant, and thus one may as well work on it now as later. From Wordnik.com. [A Particle Physicist’s Perspective] Reference
In a case of this magnitude, with allegations this serious, a dismissal of the complaint for untimeliness does nothing to enhance the public image of lawyers in the State of North Carolina. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: Justice Successfully Delayed] Reference
Marking timeliness and untimeliness reflecting upon his own strength and weakness, and improving his own strength by comparing it with that of the enemy, the king should address himself to action. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
You know she ` s shown that she has a real detachment from her emotions and there ` s no reason to think that, you know, the untimeliness and unfortunate situation where her father would give her anymore empathy or make her care anymore. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2009] Reference
Although there have been isolated instances of courts outside the Seventh Circuit denying motions for leave to file for reasons other than untimeliness, the “general practice in the federal courts of appeals is to grant leave to file an amicus brief in most situations.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Judicial Attitudes Towards Amicus Briefs:] Reference
The fog is too thick, the untimeliness thin when 50 feet up, left or right would have been just enough to survive stay alive patty hoose and norman morris moutain crashed, the way they dreamed - side by side. everyone cried at their more wedding than funeral. it seemed the angels sang a two-heart chorus. From Wordnik.com. [love and airplanes] Reference
Expenditure monitoring and reporting suffered from problems of lack of focus, untimeliness and inaccuracy resulting in the inability of these ministries to spend their allocations, and accumulation of unclaimed bills for the donor agencies. 6 This situation threatened to reduce government budget allocations for MOA. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Higginson's untimeliness and the committee's amount to?. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years] Reference
They are always unintentional, borne of timelessness, untimeliness, and inability to time travel. From Wordnik.com. [bite my cookie] Reference
And at this moment the activity of such longing had an untimeliness that made it repulsive to his better self. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
USA's brass, however, is unconcerned, believing that the strength of the premise will outweigh the untimeliness of the adaptation. From Wordnik.com. [Inside TV Blog] Reference
We figure the weirdest part of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's enthusiasm for covered bonds is the untimeliness of the products. From Wordnik.com. [Dealbreaker] Reference
A plain presentation of the subject in contention may help you to a more lively understanding of the gravity and untimeliness of the Princess 'departure. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
But it would be just like the creature's untimeliness and awkwardness to be still hanging about the garden in readiness and pop in just when everything was being lovely. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
Convention, and deny her any part in its proceedings except as a spectator, what does all your talk about Higginson's untimeliness and the Committees being full amount to?. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
The door opened, and the discussion between the government and the opposition in his mind ceased to consider the untimeliness of the visit, for here, in the visitor himself, stood another problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Strong Arm] Reference
All the sophisms we have hitherto combated are connected with one single question: the restrictive system; and, out of pity for the reader, we pass by acquired rights, untimeliness, misuse of the currency, etc., etc. From Wordnik.com. [What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader] Reference
I had heard it all often before; but preached to cow-boys it took on a new glare of untimeliness, of grotesque obsoleteness -- as if some one should say, "Let me persuade you to admire woman," and forthwith hold out her bleached bones to you. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)] Reference
Hergenrother-Kirsch), but Pastor (p. 94) defends him both from exaggeration of facts and untimeliness of speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Given the untimeliness of the hour—which was already well past eight o’clock—this pronouncement was startling indeed. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
If Eades can point to solid evidence refuting Anthony’s position a week from now, a year from now, or a decade from now, it will not be stricken from the record for its untimeliness. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Colpo: a man obsessed | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
"Furthermore one finds one's self settling one's affairs neither too early nor too late, whereas they were wont to be spoiled by untimeliness, even when the preparations had been well laid. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
Please excuse the untimeliness. From Wordnik.com. [SeeLight:] Reference
Sympathy, however, can neither create jurisdiction nor obviate untimeliness. ". From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
The untimeliness of her laughter disturbed him. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
News cover risking untimeliness?. From Wordnik.com. [Home | The New York Observer] Reference
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