Inconvenient
adjective
Causing trouble, difficulties, or discomfort.
The breakdown of the car was inconvenient.
Often appears as...
- inconvenient truth
- inconvenient situation
adjective
Not fitting well with your needs or purposes.
It's inconvenient to go all the way there just for a meeting.
Often appears as...
- inconvenient moment
- inconvenient place
adjective
Occurring at an unfavorable or inopportune time.
I'm afraid this is an inconvenient time for me.
Often appears as...
- inconvenient time
- inconvenient moment
adjective
Causing trouble, difficulties, or discomfort.
The breakdown of the car was inconvenient.
Often appears as...
- inconvenient truth
- inconvenient situation
adjective
Not fitting well with your needs or purposes.
It's inconvenient to go all the way there just for a meeting.
Often appears as...
- inconvenient moment
- inconvenient place
adjective
Occurring at an unfavorable or inopportune time.
I'm afraid this is an inconvenient time for me.
Often appears as...
- inconvenient time
- inconvenient moment
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Trouble
Refers to something that causes unplanned problems or interrupts your schedule.
The power outage was inconvenient for everyone trying to work.
Pro Tip 2/3Discomfort Inducing
Used for situations or things causing physical or mental unease.
Sleeping on the floor was quite inconvenient after the bed broke.
Pro Tip 3/3Impacts Routine
Highlights disruptions to daily routines or habits.
The gym closing early on Sunday is inconvenient for my workout schedule.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Trouble
Refers to something that causes unplanned problems or interrupts your schedule.
The power outage was inconvenient for everyone trying to work.
Pro Tip 2/3Discomfort Inducing
Used for situations or things causing physical or mental unease.
Sleeping on the floor was quite inconvenient after the bed broke.
Pro Tip 3/3Impacts Routine
Highlights disruptions to daily routines or habits.
The gym closing early on Sunday is inconvenient for my workout schedule.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Trouble
Refers to something that causes unplanned problems or interrupts your schedule.
The power outage was inconvenient for everyone trying to work.
Pro Tip 2/3Discomfort Inducing
Used for situations or things causing physical or mental unease.
Sleeping on the floor was quite inconvenient after the bed broke.
Pro Tip 3/3Impacts Routine
Highlights disruptions to daily routines or habits.
The gym closing early on Sunday is inconvenient for my workout schedule.
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What's invisible? More...
The universe disappears. The more light there is, the less you can see. Time. Nobody can see time. I don't know if you know this. There's a big movement in modern physics to decide that time doesn't really exist, because it's too inconvenient for the figures. It's much easier if it's not really there.
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Why you should be a...
and political leaders, well, they look at the next election, at what makes them popular, and I guess that's not asking the inconvenient questions. There is no intention for them to change the game. There is no country in the world where either companies or political powers
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Is invisibility the...
I went out with them one day and there was a hole in the boat and there was a hole in the baler as well which is inconvenient we've forgotten to take an anchor and on top of that I was the only person on the boat who was not high I drunk so truthfully we weren't that much
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12 truths I learned from...
And that's how we feel our people again fully alive. Also, the people will make you laugh out loud at the most inconvenient times, and that's the great good news. But their absence will also be a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.
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Animal Life in the...
things got more and more inconvenient um but yeah you know i think like they're in a lot of the research that is is done in in especially in remote places we like it can be sort of influenced by like what we kind of have access to
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Jonathan Foley: The...
Tonight, I want to have a conversation about this incredible global issue that's at the intersection of land use, food and environment, something we can all relate to, and what I've been calling the other inconvenient truth.
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The new urgency of...
diminishing, as someone said, the authority of knowledge, I think that has made it kind of open season on any inconvenient truth -- forgive another buzz phrase, but it is apt.
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Scientists must be free...
unconventional or controversial topics. They must be free to challenge the thinking of the day and they must be free to present uncomfortable or inconvenient truths,
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Cory Combs: The future...
I work in aviation, but the truth is I don't much like flying. Current commercial flights are inconvenient, noisy, expensive and use ancient plane designs
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Wild Leaps Of Faith PIPE...
two's company threes inconvenient but in any case all male frogs are equipped with dry thumbs which enable them to get a vice-like grip
Video examples
What's invisible? More...
The universe disappears. The more light there is, the less you can see. Time. Nobody can see time. I don't know if you know this. There's a big movement in modern physics to decide that time doesn't really exist, because it's too inconvenient for the figures. It's much easier if it's not really there.
Video examples
Why you should be a...
and political leaders, well, they look at the next election, at what makes them popular, and I guess that's not asking the inconvenient questions. There is no intention for them to change the game. There is no country in the world where either companies or political powers
Video examples
Is invisibility the...
I went out with them one day and there was a hole in the boat and there was a hole in the baler as well which is inconvenient we've forgotten to take an anchor and on top of that I was the only person on the boat who was not high I drunk so truthfully we weren't that much
Video examples
12 truths I learned from...
And that's how we feel our people again fully alive. Also, the people will make you laugh out loud at the most inconvenient times, and that's the great good news. But their absence will also be a lifelong nightmare of homesickness for you.
Video examples
Animal Life in the...
things got more and more inconvenient um but yeah you know i think like they're in a lot of the research that is is done in in especially in remote places we like it can be sort of influenced by like what we kind of have access to
Video examples
Jonathan Foley: The...
Tonight, I want to have a conversation about this incredible global issue that's at the intersection of land use, food and environment, something we can all relate to, and what I've been calling the other inconvenient truth.
Video examples
The new urgency of...
diminishing, as someone said, the authority of knowledge, I think that has made it kind of open season on any inconvenient truth -- forgive another buzz phrase, but it is apt.
Video examples
Scientists must be free...
unconventional or controversial topics. They must be free to challenge the thinking of the day and they must be free to present uncomfortable or inconvenient truths,
Video examples
Cory Combs: The future...
I work in aviation, but the truth is I don't much like flying. Current commercial flights are inconvenient, noisy, expensive and use ancient plane designs
Video examples
Wild Leaps Of Faith PIPE...
two's company threes inconvenient but in any case all male frogs are equipped with dry thumbs which enable them to get a vice-like grip
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Richard Schickel
American Author
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.
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Jemele Hill
American Journalist
Perspective should never influence punishment. Too often in our society, we practice selective perspective. We're willing to see all the angles only when it suits us. When perspective becomes inconvenient, we can be unflinching, even cruel.
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Ricky Gervais
English Writer
I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.
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Michael Finkel
American Journalist
The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation.
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Ishaan Khatter
Indian Actor
I feel fame shouldn't necessarily get me going, but I understand it is part of the job. Sometimes, it is inconvenient and unnecessarily imposing in your personal life.
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Norbert Wiener
American Mathematician
The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
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Paul Davies
British Writer
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
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Dick Francis
British Author
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
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Daniel Goleman
American Author
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
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Sobhita Dhulipala
Indian Actress
All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.
Quote examples
Richard Schickel
American Author
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.
Quote examples
Jemele Hill
American Journalist
Perspective should never influence punishment. Too often in our society, we practice selective perspective. We're willing to see all the angles only when it suits us. When perspective becomes inconvenient, we can be unflinching, even cruel.
Quote examples
Ricky Gervais
English Writer
I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.
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Michael Finkel
American Journalist
The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of deeper thought or contemplation.
Quote examples
Ishaan Khatter
Indian Actor
I feel fame shouldn't necessarily get me going, but I understand it is part of the job. Sometimes, it is inconvenient and unnecessarily imposing in your personal life.
Quote examples
Norbert Wiener
American Mathematician
The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
Quote examples
Paul Davies
British Writer
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
Quote examples
Dick Francis
British Author
Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
Quote examples
Daniel Goleman
American Author
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
Quote examples
Sobhita Dhulipala
Indian Actress
All I know is that it is important to stand up for ourselves, no matter how inconvenient the reality is.
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