Adjective : punctual payment. From Dictionary.com.
But of all men alive Dolly Longstaff was the most unpunctual. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
London; the post, and not yourself, must have been unpunctual. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
But Lucy at last was unpunctual in her visits to the Wilderness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
As boys, they were late at school, and unpunctual in their home duties. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Nekrovitch, like most Russians, was himself of so unpunctual and irregular. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
Do not think that we are so unpunctual as to make you wait more than one hour. From Wordnik.com. [NATIONAL MEETING OF SCHOOL MONITORS] Reference
It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
Something will stand against your name, there, worse than a mark for being unpunctual. From Wordnik.com. [Hatty and Marcus or, First Steps in the Better Path] Reference
Why is it bad manners to come late to meals, to be unpunctual, to keep people waiting?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls] Reference
Austin was very penitent, and promised he'd never be unpunctual again if he lived to be a hundred. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
Beethoven was by nature exceedingly unpunctual, and frequently kept his pupils waiting for their lessons. From Wordnik.com. [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference
The great room was fuller even than at morning prayers; for then there was always an unpunctual minority. From Wordnik.com. [The Getting of Wisdom] Reference
These way, notorious unpunctual types (read: college students) won't be locked out if they are 10 minutes "late.". From Wordnik.com. [Your Idiot's Guide To The Democratic Caucuses] Reference
And, on the other hand, too many persons seem to feel themselves at liberty to be unpunctual in an appointment with an inferior. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
Casting his eye upon his own character, two things appeared to him: that he was very unpunctual, and that he disliked answering notes. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage Out] Reference
"But they're so unpunctual -- those faces," Brodrick said. From Wordnik.com. [The Creators A Comedy] Reference
Mr. Waffles, like many men with nothing to do, was most unpunctual. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference
Once or twice she glanced at the clock; Blair was always unpunctual. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Woman] Reference
It's odd that even at your father's funeral you should be so unpunctual. From Wordnik.com. [Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English] Reference
As boys, they were late for school, and unpunctual in their home duties. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing to the Front] Reference
(Charles and Robert) are always together, and both very forgetful and unpunctual. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)] Reference
Many good men quite fail to realize how selfish, practically, it is to be unpunctual. From Wordnik.com. [To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work] Reference
The distance was considerable, and the train service greatly disordered and unpunctual. From Wordnik.com. [With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American Civil War] Reference
Maria received the unpunctual governess with her ready smile, and her appropriate speech. From Wordnik.com. [Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time] Reference
Have him give you directions, dictate you letters, discipline you if you were unpunctual?. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Baltimore] Reference
"You are incorrigibly lazy and unpunctual," said Mr. Dexter, towards the end of the address. From Wordnik.com. [The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories] Reference
'Let me get up, and we'll talk of it as we go to the bank -- you are so unpunctual, you know.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
Others waited for unpunctual friends with protesting and frequent examination of their watches. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Knew] Reference
The punctual, who keep none waiting for them, are doomed to wait perpetually for the unpunctual. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Anthony Trollope] Reference
According to my cousin, the first-night deadheads, as a body, are unpunctual and unappreciative. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
The thought of being late to supper never worries them; the Filipino is notoriously unpunctual at meals. From Wordnik.com. [The Great White Tribe in Filipinia] Reference
Mrs. Julia Burdett Parslow is a little inclined to be unpunctual with her 'Moments with Budding Girlhood.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince and Betty] Reference
David Dove, among other odd ways, devised a plan for punishing the unpunctual which had considerable success. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker] Reference
But it was just at the time when the cook was sulking at Bethia's dismissal -- and she chose to be unpunctual and careless. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
I went a little after seven o'clock to keep my dinner engagement at ---'s; for very young men are seldom unpunctual at dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
'Well, they will be here directly, and then I must give them a little scolding for being so unpunctual,' said grandmamma, cheerfully. From Wordnik.com. [My New Home] Reference
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