Adjective : an inopportune visit. From Dictionary.com.
Its apparent inopportuneness may even, on certain occasions, cause violent anger. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
All the great newspapers have insisted upon the inopportuneness of the démarche of William II. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Words.] Reference
This was news worth hearing, and I forgave the L.C.P. the inopportuneness of her interruption with Nell. From Wordnik.com. [The Chauffeur and the Chaperon] Reference
She tried not to say more about it, as though she suddenly realized the inopportuneness of her last words. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.] Reference
Had the prophetical talent been vouchsafed to him, he would have detected the inopportuneness of the acts of his Council. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference
It perplexed, as well as shocked her, by the irreverent inopportuneness of the occasions that brought it into vivid action. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Letter] Reference
When the sad news reached Rome, not only was the loss of the man severely felt, but also the inopportuneness of the time when it occurred. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Vol. II] Reference
The inopportuneness of the moment was prophetic of the numberless disappointments with which the naval officer would have to contend during the brief three months preceding his defeat by Perry. From Wordnik.com. [Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2] Reference
It was the first time that Varick had come to the house, and the surprise of seeing him, combined with the singular inopportuneness of his arrival, gave a new edge to Waythorn's blunted sensibilities. From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
With his wonted zeal and eloquence, he urged the inopportuneness of such a measure when 40,000 British troops were holding down Ireland, and he denied the competence either of the British or Irish Parliament to decide on it. From Wordnik.com. [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference
He had often warned other sinners who came to him in like resentment that it was this very quality of inopportuneness that was perhaps the most sanative and divine property of retribution; the eternal justice fell upon us, he said, at the very moment when we were least able to bear it, or thought ourselves so; but now in his own case the clear-sighted prophet cried out and revolted in his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Minister's Charge] Reference
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