INOPPORTUNE in a Sentence

Learn INOPPORTUNE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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1. A rock concert is an inopportune setting for a quiet conversation.
2. It perplexed, as well as shocked her, by the irreverent inopportuneness of the occasions that brought it into vivid action.

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 Meanings and Examples of INOPPORTUNE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inopportune
 a.  untimely; poorly chosen; inappropriate or ill-timed
Classic Sentence:
1  And now let us leave Mademoiselle Danglars and her friend pursuing their way to Brussels, and return to poor Andrea Cavalcanti, so inopportunely interrupted in his rise to fortune.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern.
2  It perplexed, as well as shocked her, by the irreverent inopportuneness of the occasions that brought it into vivid action.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
Example Sentence:
1  A rock concert is an inopportune setting for a quiet conversation.