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Busts of Virginia and Leonard Woolf in the garden of Monk's House

Virginia Woolf and her husband lived together in Monk’s House, a serene 17th-century clapboard cottage in East Sussex, England, from 1919 until her untimely death in 1941. Here she worked on such novels as Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse and also held her famous Bloomsbury Group meetings, entertaining such luminaries as T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and Lytton Strachey.


The case comes at an inopportune time for VOIP providers. Shares of Vonage Holdings Corp. have fallen 29% since its initial public offering of stock last week, and technology experts are raising more alarms than ever about the security of VOIP.


Catholic School Teachers Strike Over Health Care and Plan Another Walkout
By JOHN ELIGON
Catholic social ideals and harsh financial truths are colliding at an inopportune time for the Archdiocese of New York: The Pope is coming to town.


midcentury, haptic, ill-timed
Novels by Hans Keilson Reviewed by FRANCINE PROSE
The Dutch author Hans Keilson's newly-translated novels of Nazi-occupied Europe, "The Death of the Adversary" and "Comedy in a Minor Key," are midcentury masterpieces.

First Lady’s Spain Vacation Draws Criticism
By PETER BAKER and RAPHAEL MINDER
The image of Michelle Obama vacationing abroad while Americans struggle back home struck some as ill-timed.


hap·tic (hăp'tĭk) pronunciation
adj.
Of or relating to the sense of touch; tactile.


 ill-timed
(ĭl'tīmd')
adj.

Done or occurring at an inappropriate time; untimely.




Clapboard, also known as bevel siding, lap siding or weatherboard (with regional variants as to the exact definitions of these terms) is wooden siding of a building.

Siding and wall cladding is the exterior material applied to the walls of a house or other building meant to shed water, protect the walls from the effects of weather, insulate, and is a key in the aesthetics of the structure. 

untimely

ʌnˈtʌɪmli/

adjective

1. 1.

   (of an event or act) happening or done at an unsuitable time.

   "Dave's untimely return"

   synonyms:

   ill-timed, badly timed, mistimed; More

adverb

archaic

1. 1.

   at a time that is unsuitable or premature.

   "the moment was very untimely chosen"

malapropos
adj.
inappropriate; out of place; inopportune; untimely 不合時宜的；不適當的
a malapropos remark 不適當的評論
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inopportune
adjective FORMAL
happening or done at a time which is not suitable or convenient:
I'm sorry, you've called at an inopportune moment.