well-timed

[ wel-tahymd ]

adjective

1. fittingly or appropriately timed; opportune; timely:

   a well-timed demand for new legislation.

well-timed

adjective

1. happening or scheduled to happen at an appropriate or suitable time

Word History and Origins

Origin of well-timed¹

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

Titanic has sometimes made $50,000 in a few weeks of well-timed chipping and putting at golf resorts.

From The Daily Beast

Like Stealth Wear, the Off Pocket received a well-timed boost from the news.

From The Daily Beast

He took on the unions that were again attempting to extort New Yorkers with well-timed strikes.

From The Daily Beast

It was only a well-timed grab to the chest area that kept her upright.

From The Daily Beast

The most obvious example of special-interest pandering was his well-timed “evolution” favoring gay marriage.

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With honeyed words, and well-timed flattery she detached State after State from the Union.

From Project Gutenberg

The aim was excellent, and well-timed shrapnel would have been very damaging.

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It has been esteemed a well-timed, as well as a well-merited compliment here, and has its good effects.

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It was very clear now to Frances Forsyth that Mrs. Bladon's manœuvre had been well timed.

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But for this well-timed obliteration, the sharp-eyed savages could not have failed to note the traces of its recent occupancy.

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