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Inconveniently

Inconveniently \In`con*ven"ient*ly\, adv. In an inconvenient manner; incommodiously; unsuitably; unseasonably.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inconveniently

mid-15c., "wrongfully," from inconvenient + -ly (2). Meaning "with trouble or discomfort" is from 1650s.

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inconveniently

adv. In an inconvenient manner.

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inconveniently

adv. in an inconvenient manner; "he arrived at an inconveniently late hour" [ant: handily]

Usage examples of "inconveniently".

On Thursday the twelfth I was in my inconveniently tiny kitchen mincing and chopping and braising and doing a lot of other things that do not ordinarily constitute my preparations for a meal.

Our military history has largely consisted in our conflicts with France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have never treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their ancient theology and their inconveniently modern rifles.

He himself had taken short trips - no absences long enough to arouse suspicion, and never where dragonriders might inconveniently overfly him.

Barcoding burns off with the skin, dog tags melt or get inconveniently shredded by shrapnel.

New Joburg was not far away but was working the node known as Reynolds Number Two, which rode the Themis orbital pattern, inconveniently far out.

Light in weight, it was rather crudely constructed in two sections that folded together with the rungs seemingly inconveniently far apart, and the side rail of the upper section had split.

These were either mentally or physically handicapped unfortunates, or so-called enemies of the Reich, such as Communists, Social Democrats, liberals, editors, reporters, and priests who spoke out too inconveniently, men of conscience and courage, and later Army officers suspected of lack of loyalty to Hitler.

The name of the superuser account is, inconveniently, "randy" and you can’t actually log in as "randy" without entering a password that only Randy would know.

The name of the superuser account is, inconveniently, "randy" and you can't actually log in as "randy" without entering a password that only Randy would know.