"Our dear Lady Mary is so very unpunctual," said Lady Belstone.

late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine^, belated, postliminious^, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely; delayed, postponed; dilatory &c (slow) 275; delayed &c v.; in abeyance.

647. unpunctual &c (late) 133; too late for; premature &c (early) 132; too soon for; wise after the event, monday morning quarterbacking, twenty-twenty hindsight.

Irregularity of recurrence N. irregularity, uncertainty, unpunctuality; fitfulness &c adj.; capriciousness, ecrhythmus^. Adj. irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical^, unmethodical, variable.

It was yet an hour to church-time, an hour usually one of spiteful alacrity; but this morning, it seemed, in defiance of the clock, cruelly unpunctual.

Gifford was not a man of business; he was unpunctual.

On the other side of the room Ned Hazell lay sleeping the deep sleep of the unpunctual clerk; and Henry, when he had for a moment or two dwelt upon his own happiness, took a malicious joy in arousing him.

"Ingham's a good fellowalways on hand"; "never talks muchbut does the right thing at the right time"; "is not as unpunctual as he used to behe comes early, and sits through to the end."

Nothing ever happened to make us unpunctual.

He is very unpunctual.

Commerce was in the hands of the Jews, and these could not teach us accuracy; the cultivator of the soil is unreliable because the soil is unreliable, he is unpunctual because nature has no punctuality.

I had remarked Dicky's regularity in catching the 8:21 in the mornings, something so opposed to his usual unpunctual habits, and wondered why.

The only way to make an unpunctual person punctual is to convince him that it is rude and unjust to keep other people waiting.

There is nothing sacred about punctuality in itself, unless some one else suffers by your being unpunctual.

If it comes to that, isn't it quite as good a discipline for punctual people to learn to wait without impatience for the unpunctual?

Supposing an unpunctual person were to say, 'I do it on principle, to teach precise people not to mind waiting,' where is the flaw in that?

Quite a moveable feast;" i.e., "If he's unpunctual, he won't forget it.

And yet, could any one have wished Cecil Poynsett a more trying life than one of her disposition must needs have with impetuous, unpunctual, uncertain, scatter-brained, open-handed Ballybrehon, always in a scramble, always inviting guests upon guests without classification, and never remembering whom he had invited!