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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
conveniently
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conveniently/ideally/beautifully etc situated
▪ The hotel is ideally situated near the seafront.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
forget
▪ They had conveniently forgotten to tell me I had to carry out my punishment holding the glass in my left hand.
▪ We idealize the world of jobs and conveniently forget how boring and depressing most people found it.
▪ They conveniently forgot that I was a member of the Kingman Committee.
▪ They conveniently forgot to provide Mom with a way to dial in.
▪ Should all this be conveniently forgotten now that the boycott is about to be lifted?
▪ What of the loony fringe that I had so conveniently forgotten?
▪ Connections which appear subsequently to have been falsely conceived are rarely abrogated, but are usually just conveniently forgotten.
▪ At that moment the terms of the truce between the Downing Street neighbours will be conveniently forgotten.
locate
▪ Nice, laid-back, old pub, with no pretensions. Conveniently located near the Greenwich foot tunnel.
▪ They were located conveniently on the same floor as the Telenews office, whose facilities Mike, Jim and I were sharing.
▪ Nearly 20 percent of that cash went toward constructing a fire substation conveniently located south of the Industrial Park.
▪ The hotel was conveniently located, but the nights in that fleabag almost did me in.
situated
▪ It is conveniently situated in the high street of Stetchworth, just outside Newmarket, in Suffolk.
▪ It is conveniently situated close to the town centre and the sea, which can be seen from several of the rooms.
▪ The property is conveniently situated for access to Headington for shopping plus sporting and social facilities.
▪ It is very conveniently situated for Manchester.
▪ In my first year at London University a squash court was conveniently situated within the grounds of my halls of residence.
▪ Travel times and distances are usually greater and services and facilities less conveniently situated.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Each house for sale is conveniently listed by location and price.
▪ People conveniently forget things that might be embarrassing to them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had been called conveniently to London.
▪ In 1570, the Marquis's son, also conveniently named Alberigo, inaugurated the use of gunpowder in quarrying.
▪ Melville has combined these basic elements together very conveniently with the literary device of Ishmael, the narrator.
▪ There are three reagents, conveniently supplied in aerosol cans.
▪ They conveniently forgot to provide Mom with a way to dial in.
▪ Women were, conveniently, the thing left out.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conveniently

Conveniently \Con*ven"ient*ly\, adv. In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
conveniently

late 14c., "harmoniously," from convenient + -ly (2). Meaning "in a way that avoids difficulty" is from c.1500.

Wiktionary
conveniently

adv. In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.

WordNet
conveniently

adv. in a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently located" [syn: handily] [ant: inconveniently]

Usage examples of "conveniently".

And thanks to the aeroplankton, everyone now had to own, and wear during the aeroplankton storms, filter-masks conveniently designed to filter out the microorganism and forty-seven varieties of industrial pollutants.

As, even in Asuncion in 1643, it was unusual that the Governor should remain for ever under the ban of Holy Mother Church, arbiters were chosen to discuss the matter, and provide means whereby the Bishop could conveniently climb down.

If you elect a seagoing haven, for example, you may want to substitute a revolver for an autopistol in order to eliminate the hazard of empty brass on your deck, or if a land mobile approach appeals to you, particular attention should be given to folding stocks and the overall length of any defense arm you select so that it may be used conveniently from the close quarters of either a vehicle or trailer.

Yet another aspect of IS she had always conveniently ignored, along with the bioethical aspects of their endeavors.

The caravan was put up in the courtyard, with all the monks shown to their quarters, conveniently separated from the brothers of St.

Shon-ka still tied her up at night, but ever since they had crossed the Missouri in conveniently waiting bullboats, their horses swimming alongside, the Indians had been less wary, traveling only by day and sleeping all night.

Three hundred calices, suddenly and conveniently moved here to a minor border world.

The wistful, piteous way in which the poor man asked her to promise suggested that too many promises made to Camo, were conveniently forgotten.

Otherwise, I shall either scream for the police, who are conveniently situated behind the house, or perhaps merely continue to my apartment to microwave a low-sodium serving of fettuccini with a medley of garden vegetables and a tangy cheese sauce.

There was no other reasonable explanation for Herm Aldaran to have come back so conveniently.

Liath did not, in fact, make way or give up her own place standing on a conveniently situated rock that elevated her a bit above the rest, but she did drop her chin and, between one breath and the next, efface herself.

Meanwhile, he would have the drama produced in its original tongue at Strasburg, then a French city conveniently near the German border, with Albert Niemann in the titular role and an orchestra from Karlsruhe, or some other German city which had an opera-house.

The CIA thus conveniently inherited a counterinsurgent network of Hmong guerrillas that the French had organized in northern Laos two decades earlier.

In an age of multitasking, we can conveniently experience the pleasures of nature while we eat or shop in the mall.

All this information, together with much else, such as his date and place of birth, height, color of hair, color of eyes, and other characteristics, was to be found conveniently enough in the blue service paybook which he had put in the top left-hand pocket of his tunic.