Definition of Inconvenient

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Inconvenient

Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient.

Not convenient; giving trouble, uneasiness, or annoyance; hindering progress or success; uncomfortable; disadvantageous; incommodious; inopportune; as, an inconvenient house, garment, arrangement, or time.

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Inconvenient Quotations

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Josh Billings

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Milton Berle

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
Richard Schickel

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
Charles de Montesquieu

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Denis Diderot

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
Arnold Bennett

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
Peter O'Toole

Inconvenient Translations

inconvenient in Afrikaans is moeilik
inconvenient in Danish is vanskelig
inconvenient in Dutch is moeilijk, lastig, slim
inconvenient in Italian is sconveniente
inconvenient in Latin is incommodus
inconvenient in Norwegian is brysom, ubeleilig, vanskelig
inconvenient in Spanish is dificil, inoportuno

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