Definition of "ill-timed" []

• Done or occurring at an inappropriate time; untimely. (adjective)

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• "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."
• "He has said he would limit himself to teaching if he returned, and his spokeswoman rejected the notion his return would be ill-timed."
• "Or the purposely ill-timed Spirit Airlines ads about oil on the beaches of the Gulf Coast?"