bad time

noun

: not the right moment to do something or for something to happen

Am I calling at a bad time? Are you very busy?

Examples of bad time in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the processing, the music came about, and most all of that was a really hard, bad time. —Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2025

There’s no bad time for pie, but there are few better times than this, sitting on the back bumper, passing tins of strawberry rhubarb, blueberry, and apple back and forth. —Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 4 July 2025

Sean Byrne knows how to show an audience a bad time. —Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025

All over the album, Miley sings about keeping her chin up and looking on the positive side, even in times of trouble, which makes this album basically the opposite of The Wall, which was all about having a bad time at a rock show. —Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2025

Rhymes for bad time

• airtime
• bedtime
• daytime
• downtime
• enzyme
• halftime
• lifetime
• longtime
• lunchtime
• mealtime
• meantime
• nighttime