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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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... he had succeeded in making soldiers of the raw recruits and in enforcing subordination, they were still a very skittish body. They enlisted for short terms of service, and even before their term was completed, they began to hanker to go home. This caused not only inconvenience, but real difficulty. Still, Washington steadily pushed on, and in March, 1776, by a brilliant manoeuvre at Dorchester Heights, he secured a position from which his cannons could bombard every British ship in Boston Harbor. On the 17th of March all those ships, ...

— George Washington • William Roscoe Thayer

... can't even flatter myself," he added wryly; "I can't even flatter myself that my—going is going to inconvenience Cornelia in the slightest; because I can't see that my coming has made even the remotest perceptible difference in her daily routine. Anyway—" he finished more lightly, "when you come right down to 'mating', or 'homing', or ...

— Molly Make-Believe • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... delayed by hard westerly gales, which not only prevented the carpenter's caulking, but also delayed our watering, since the boat could not pull to the shore; but as the anchorage was well sheltered we suffered no further inconvenience than the delay. ...

— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King

... lives to them. There were boats on board sufficient to carry the entire crew and passengers; and two of these were lifeboats. There was also a large supply of life-buoys and life-jackets; the latter being made of cork, in such a form that the wearers might be able to work in them without inconvenience. But in preparing the ship for sea, fire had not been sufficiently considered. There was no fire-engine aboard. Buckets there were, and these were plied with vigour, but, as we have ...

— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne

... be a humiliation to you at present that I could not bear if a marriage between us were made public; an inconvenience without any ...

— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy

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