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unearthly

adjective (NOT CONVENIENT)
 
 
/ʌnˈɜːθ.li/ US  /-ˈɝːθ-/ informal

Definition

describes a time that is not at all convenient because it is too early in the morning or too late at night: I was woken up at some unearthly hour of the morning by someone knocking on my door.Late
(Definition of unearthly adjective (NOT CONVENIENT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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