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Inconvenience

noun

An inconvenient discomfort. Synonym: incommodiousness.

A difficulty that causes anxiety. Synonyms: troublesomeness, worriment.

The quality of not being useful or convenient.

verb

To cause inconvenience or discomfort to. Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, put out, trouble.

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"Inconvenience" Quotes from Famous Books

... one of the employees being told off to clear all barges out of our way, and see us safely, and with the least trouble to ourselves, to its end at Kendal; this thoughtfulness saving us much delay and inconvenience, and rendering this portion of our trip one of the most delightful experiences throughout the whole ...

— Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe • Vincent Hughes

... after which she proceeds to the nearest brook, and washes the clothing soiled during the birth. Lerena likewise credits her with delivering herself without aid, at whatever spot she may then chance to be; then, without further ado or inconvenience, she continues her duties as before. If she happens to be near to a river, she bathes the child; or, if water is not handy, she cleans it with grass or leaves, and then gives it such a name as stone, rooster, ...

— The Tinguian - Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe • Fay-Cooper Cole

... his clogs in the vestibule. As he entered the room—"Pray pardon the intrusion. This Kazuma feels much in the way. He is continually putting his neighbours of the nagaya to inconvenience; too great the kindness of Cho[u]bei San and wife." O'Taki laughed deprecatingly. Truly this was a handsome young man. In this 6th year of Ho[u]ei (1709) Yanagibara Kazuma was twenty-one years of age. O'Taki was thirty odd. She appreciated ...

— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

... gone through our toils this evening with no personal inconvenience; but that is owing to our travels being of the mind instead of the body: for what man journeying through Arabia but has felt the annoyances of heat, the pangs of thirst and unutterable anguish from the horrors ...

— The World of Waters - A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea • Mrs. David Osborne

... dashed again to the end of the bridge, and watched with great interest and warlike impatience the progress of the grocers, as he called them. To his and his country's honor, be it here said, that they all alike wished the poor civilians a warm reception, and some serious inconvenience, that they might have a right to interfere, and cut and hack a little on ...

— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag

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