intempestively

Updated: June 7, 2025

But to bite and for the most part, if not almost always, to back-bite your friends' supposed enemies often when they have done nothing adverse to those friends on the particular occasion is the act at the best of an intempestively officious person, at the worst of a cur.

George Saintsbury - A Letter Book: Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing