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inconvenient

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[ UK /ɪnkənvˈiːnɪənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnkənˈvinjənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not conveniently timed
    an early departure is inconvenient for us
  2. not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs
    the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone
    it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen

How To Use inconvenient In A Sentence

  • This is inconvenient for human land use, so we try to channelise and fix the channel in one place. 26 « September « 2008 « Stephen Rees's blog
  • Because large sum of metal money is heaved and inconvenient to handle, government issue paper money.
  • Facts are so inconvenient, sometimes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The infantryman carried a substantial ammunition pouch, bayonet, water-bottle, and ‘snapsack’ for a day's rations suspended from broad cross-belts, usually made of buff leather and pipeclayed to inconvenient whiteness.
  • Over the five years of our acquaintance with her, Fanny avoids pregnancy when it would be professionally inconvenient.
  • Damned inconvenient, Zojja said a month later as she tromped behind Caithe and Snaff through deep jungle. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • To explain away inconvenient facts, they simply invent another twist. Times, Sunday Times
  • The English cottage has a rheumatic floor of beaten earth or tile; its rooms are few and small, and very dark; the water-supply is scanty and most inconvenient; its chimney smokes; mice and rats find secure refuge in the thatch; the masses of clinging vines make it damp and earwiggy; but what a lovely bit it is in the landscape! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
  • The disadvantages are that the batteries are inconvenient to change and severe battery leakage can be disastrous to the circuit board.
  • She would read, she would write, and she would be free from 'unhealthful, uncomfortable ... inconvenient ... fettering, hampering, monstrous skirts'. The Times Literary Supplement
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