Ill-timed means happening at exactly the wrong moment. An ill-timed remark.
It blames the timing rather than the thing itself, which is often fair. An ill-timed joke is the same joke that would have worked an hour later.
1adjectiveill-timedHappening at exactly the wrong moment.
“The announcement was ill-timed and everybody said so afterwards.”
ill-timed is a quality.
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire