[VN] to do sth at the wrong time, especially when this makes sth bad or unpleasant happen:
The horse completely mistimed the jump and threw its rider. * A lot of the jokes were mistimed (= and therefore not funny).
mistiming noun [U]:
The failure of the talks was mainly due to insensitivity and mistiming.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for mistime is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is mistime a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, mistime is tagged as verb.
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