Word Finder - inconvenient

definition

An inconsistency, an incongruity.

definition

An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

definition

Not convenient

The present situation was inconvenient for everyone.

The whole agitation was extremely inconvenient to the government.

Drawing water from a well and cooking on a wood stove would be inconvenient, but how complicated could it be?

Sometimes, our initial impression is that having to include time for Mass on a Sunday is rather inconvenient.

A bishop, however, was an inconvenient prisoner, and Flambard soon succeded in effecting his escape from the Tower of London.

A circular disposition of the cells facilitates charging by the use of a pipe rotating above them, but it renders the disposal of the hot spent slices somewhat difficult and inconvenient.

The Romans employed a division of the month and a method of reckoning the days which appear not a little extraordinary, and must, in practice, have been exceedingly inconvenient.

His ignorance of any language but his own made his intercourse with foreign ministers very inconvenient.

All the historical books were reprinted in one volume in 1 777, the synoptical arrangement of the Gospels having been abandoned as inconvenient.

And experiments in morality (apart from the inconvenient practical consequences likely to ensue) are useless for purposes of ethics, because the moral consciousness would itself at one and the same time be required to make the experiment and to provide the subject upon which the experiment is performed.

Tearfund is urging churchgoers to watch Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, which goes on selected nationwide release from 15 September.

It seems more probable that a special invasion was assigned to them by later writers in order to explain the presence of mythical personages going by their name in the heroic cycles, as they were found inconvenient by the monkish historians.

Neither Grey nor the Spanish ambassador seems to have seen anything extraordinary in thus disposing of inconvenient prisoners.

Even if the details can be recognized with an apparent magnification of 2', the observation may still be inconvenient.

There are snide cops and leggy blondes, and the inevitable dead bodies, which pop up at inconvenient and unexpected moments.

No Member present at the meeting found this date inconvenient.

It's just that, at the moment, it's terribly inconvenient.

A digital camera is useless if it is inconvenient to carry.

They can apply to the police commissaries (stanovoti) or to the justices of the peace; but the great distances to be traversed in a country so sparsely populated makes this course highly inconvenient.

The fall and rise of the road across the valley before the construction of the viaduct (1869) was abrupt and inconvenient.

Pro-actively, the East Timorese have been an inconvenient and entirely dispensable commodity for the last twenty five years.

Some extremely inconvenient circumstances have brought you into the presence of a man who has cut himself off from humanity.

But the distance was considerable; the going and coming were somewhat inconvenient for the First Minister of the Crown.

Although highly inconvenient for patients, such delays did not usually last more than a few hours.

Instead of truthful reporting, the agenda of advocacy journalism has sometimes made reporters highly selective, leading them to ignore inconvenient information.

If an ox were his property, and he wished to get needles and thread at the store, he thought it would be inconvenient and impossible soon to go on mortgaging some portion of the creature each time to that amount.

This, according to Paley, would be inconvenient.

If you can't avoid this type of placement, then create a new path that feels natural and isn't inconvenient.

Gastroenteritis is an uncomfortable and inconvenient ailment, but is rarely life-threatening in the United States and other developed nations.

Changing payments can be inconvenient and confusing, but it can also be beneficial if rates are changing frequently.

Feeding a live mouse to your ball python may end up being inconvenient since it means making a trip to the pet shop once a week or keeping several mice on hand in another cage.

Don't ignore unusual sounds, smells or leaks; they usually mean something isn't right and needs to be attended to before it becomes an inconvenient breakdown or a costly repair.

This is particularly important with hanging candle holders as it can sometimes be tricky or inconvenient to change them.

This type of diet is rather inconvenient for most people.

Diaper bags can get heavy, and shoulder straps can be inconvenient when one is pushing a stroller or unloading a car.

Though it was inconvenient, obesity was not as big of an issue.

Even on the assumption that the Athenian dicasteries were scrupulously fair in their awards, it must have been peculiarly galling to the self-respect of the allies and inconvenient to individuals to be compelled to carry cases to Athens and Athenian juries.

Catherine, relieved by the loss of an inconvenient preceptor, and by the disappearance of the other leaders, became mistress of the Catholic party, of whose strength and popularity she had now had proof, and her idea was to make peace at once on the best terms possible.

The terms of license agreements must be observed, however inconvenient.

Transportation awaited the poor, or those whose right to land proved inconvenient to the powerful.

But the Lord Chancellor says Mr Cameron is trying to re-write human rights because " they seem inconvenient " .

But when midweek became inconvenient it was switched to Saturdays.

The effort only made the creature tremble and jump, which I found inconvenient.

That was an innocent lie which hurts nobody; and in my position I find that inconvenient truths have to give way to lies.

The book was very inconvenient to the Protestants, as it served to emphasize the Eucharistic differences between the Lutherans and Zwinglians at a moment when efforts were being made to reconcile them.

The validity of his fundamental position was impaired by the absence of a well-constituted theory of series; the notation employed was inconvenient, and was abandoned by its inventor in the second edition of his Mecanique; while his scruples as to the admission into analytical investigations of the idea of limits or vanishing ratios have long since been laid aside as idle.

The terrestrial eyepiece (see Telescope), which likewise ensures an upright image, but which involves an inconvenient lengthening, has also been employed in the binocular microscope.

This turns out to be inconvenient, so instead we replace the q s in the denominator by their MLE.

Democracy matters but we can see how it can be allowed to shrivel when democratic traditions are inconvenient to wider plans.

However, in dirty weather this may be inconvenient, in which case a remote shut-off switch is a real asset.