opportunely
- adverb
- /ˌɑːpərˈtuːnli/
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oportunamente
- This opportunely deflects attention away from the fact that even if everything he says in Black Athena were to turn out to be correct, any responsible editor or referee would balk at its tendentious argumentation and unprofessional references to future publications.
Examples
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This website does not intend to damage copyrights, so every single source is opportunely credited.
Blog text (18) -
Mme NN's failure to opportunely appreciate love makes her exclaim at the end of the story, "Oh God, oh God, the life is lost..."
Academic text (2003) -
But then he died, suddenly and opportunely murdered, again some 16 years ago.
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Keeping in the spirit of the first novel, the photographs in Hollow City are equally disturbing and opportunely placed throughout the story.
Academic text (2015) -
This was an understanding that, in the end, presumably, was only available to the laboring proletariat itself (and, he adds opportunely, to "certain of the best representatives" of the technical intelligentsia).
Academic text (1997) -
The seeds of dissatisfaction had begun to grow, climbing up her neck and threatening to squeeze her throat, when very opportunely she remembered that famous people were very unhappy (like on Dynasty) and that all those women were whores besides, which pulled her out of her ruminations, and she threw herself into her routine, full speed.
Fiction book (1995) -
The rain started to fall, leaving the farmer feeling that it was an opportunely timed blessing for his crops.
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He arrived opportunely at the meeting, just in time to present his ideas before the discussion began.
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The phone call came opportunely when she was feeling lonely, lifting her spirits just when she needed it.
Synonyms
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7.5
By lucky chance when something happens unexpectedly
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5.2
In a way that gives you a benefit or helps you succeed
Antonyms
How Timely
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Opportunely comes from the same root as opportunity and opportune, where the old idea was a ship arriving at port — a 'harbour' — at the right time. So, to do something opportunely is to do it at a 'convenient' or well-timed moment.