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Answer for the clue "Being at an inappropriate time ", 16 letters:
unseasonableness

Word definitions for unseasonableness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being unseasonable.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. being at an inappropriate time [syn: untimeliness ] [ant: seasonableness , seasonableness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unseasonable \Un*sea"son*a*ble\, a. Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late; as, he called at an unseasonable hour; unseasonable advice; unseasonable frosts; unseasonable food. -- Un*sea"son*a*ble*ness ...

Usage examples of unseasonableness.

We travelled all night and reached Lippstadt in the early morning, and in spite of the unseasonableness of the hour I ordered something to eat.

One, who appeared to be the youngest, no sooner saw me, than she shrieked, and, starting from her seat, betrayed in the looks which she successively cast upon me, on herself, and on the chamber, whose apparatus was in no less confusion than that of the apartment below, her consciousness of the unseasonableness of this meeting.

Wherefore the hindrance by rot is rather to be ascribed to the unseasonableness and moisture of the weather in summer, also their licking in of mildews, gossamire, rowtie fogs, and rank grass, full of superfluous juice, but especially (I say) to over moist weather, whereby the continual rain piercing into their hollow fells soaketh forthwith into their flesh, which bringeth them to their baines.