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Inconvenience   /ˌɪnkənvˈinjəns/   Listen
noun
Inconvenience  n.  
1.
The quality or condition of being inconvenient; lack of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. "They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness,... of ceremonies in burial."
2.
That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty. "A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience." "Man is liable to a great many inconveniences."
Synonyms: Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet; uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance.



verb
Inconvenience  v. t.  To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.






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"Inconvenience" Quotes from Famous Books



... ladies that there was nothing for supper save the items I have already referred to," said Kidd. "I see it all now. We had tried to make them comfortable, and I put myself to some considerable personal inconvenience to make them easy in their minds, but they ...
— The Pursuit of the House-Boat • John Kendrick Bangs

... there on the pavement, a cause of some inconvenience to the passersby, and thus beguiled the time with conversation. Cyril was leaning his elbow on the top of a hutch that had seemed empty when they had inspected the whole edifice of hutches one by one, and he ...
— The Story of the Amulet • E. Nesbit

... become seriously in love with her, in order to discover by her countenance whether there was really any ground for her apprehensions, which she founded on the impossibility of his marrying a woman of small fortune, without reducing himself to the greatest inconvenience, as his estate was extremely incumbered, and he was by an intail deprived of the liberty of selling any part of it to discharge the debt. She was too polite to mention her chief objection to Miss Mancel, which ...
— A Description of Millenium Hall • Sarah Scott

... risen to such a height that it was a very great inconvenience for anyone who had climbed to the top to descend to the ground, and the builders lost much time in going to eat and drink, and suffered great discomfort in the heat of the day. Filippo therefore made arrangements for eating-houses with kitchens to be opened on the cupola, and for ...
— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol 2, Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi • Giorgio Vasari

... quietly doing what others did not do and remembering what others forgot. It was Hamish who cared for the creatures about the place; it was he who made and mended and kept in order many things which it would have cost money to get or much inconvenience to go without. So it may be said that it was owing to Hamish that the early snow did not find ...
— Shenac's Work at Home • Margaret Murray Robertson


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