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UK
/ɪnkənvˈiːnɪənt/
]
[ US /ˌɪnkənˈvinjənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnkənˈvinjənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not conveniently timed
an early departure is inconvenient for us -
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