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How to use inconvenient in a sentence

16 example sentences · adjective, noun

Inconvenient means not convenient. Example: “I know Wiktionary has some, but only in an appendix and it’s inconvenient to access.”

More sentences with inconvenient

  • I know Wiktionary has some, but only in an appendix and it’s inconvenient to access.2023 June 15, Qaziquza, Lemmy.World. From the entry tokiponize
  • We believe that Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch research that it considers inconvenient.2021 August 10, Laura Edelson, Damon McCoy, “We Research Misinformation on Facebook. It Just Disabled Our Accounts.”, in The New York…. From the entry squelch
  • Hardly anyone wants to touch this subject, as it seems to be overwhelming and inconvenient.2018, Jacob Niegowski, Forbidden Knowledge, page 48. From the entry rainbow unicorns
  • “It is most inconvenient for me to be away from the house at this time.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry restive
  • Illogical pedestrian crossings, inaccessible pavements and inconvenient public transport make it rather hostile for its differently abled citizens.2022 May 24, “Is Chennai convenient for its Differently-abled citizens?”, in The Hindu. From the entry differently able
  • “Qingchuan County is located in a remote mountain area, with inconvenient transportation, and is economically impoverished and backward.2017, Christian P. Sorace, “The Ideological Pursuit of Ecology”, in Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan…. From the entry Qingchuan
  • The inconvenient truth that Al Gore laid out in his film and book already falls short of reality.2007 October, Mort Rosenblum, Escaping Plato's Cave: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival, New York…. From the entry Goracle
  • He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient.2001 May 24, Peter Ryan, “ablett no from hall of fame”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet). From the entry paralytic
  • She displayed alarming influenza on Tuesday morning, and although it was most frightfully inconvenient I packed her off home without a moment's delay.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry influ
  • Kiss would continue forever if it weren’t for the inconvenient path of time’s arrow – although, as Simmons puts it, “As long as your schmeckle works, you feel immortal.”2023 September 14, Elmo Keep, quoting Gene Simmons, “Gene Simmons on Kiss, sex and calling it quits: ‘As long as your schmeckle works, you…. From the entry schmeckle
  • Anyway, this is the last Yewtreed edition of the show until we get to Christmas, when both end-of-year specials are scuppered by their hosts, which is a bit inconvenient.2016 January 6, Steve Binnie, Feeling Like a Number One, Lulu.com, →ISBN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2024, page 197. From the entry Yewtree
  • In the past when baby-fathers were reluctant to give support, baby-mothers had to make long treks as supplicants but the phone now saves them considerable, inconvenient and costly travelling.2006, Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller, “Link-up”, in The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York…. From the entry baby-mother
  • The engineers at AMC have wrought a minor miracle in modifying this archaic transmission so that it is merely inconvenient instead of being an outright disappointment.1970 January, “AMC Javelin 390 SST”, in Car and Driver, retrieved 04 Aug 2016. From the entry minor miracle
  • There not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: the inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives.1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 8. From the entry jinn
  • The use of high pattens (calcagnini or calcagnetti) still persisted during the seventeenth century, and we do not know for certain when this strange and inconvenient habit went out.1908, Pompeo Molmenti, Venice: The Decadence, page 224. From the entry calcagnetti
  • Elaborate rituals designed to separate the realm of the Holy, the realm of the unembodied Sky-Father, and much messier World, where people do inconvenient things like have babies and copulate.1979 April 28, John Graczak, “The Sacred and the Profane”, in Gay Community News, page 16. From the entry unembodied

Meaning of inconvenient

  1. adjective Not convenient.
  2. noun An inconsistency, an incongruity.
  3. noun An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

Full definition of inconvenient

Questions about inconvenient in a sentence

How do you use inconvenient in a sentence?
Inconvenient is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “I know Wiktionary has some, but only in an appendix and it’s inconvenient to access.”
What is a short sentence with inconvenient?
“Hardly anyone wants to touch this subject, as it seems to be overwhelming and inconvenient.”
What does inconvenient mean?
Inconvenient means not convenient.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inconvenient (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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