inconvenience
/ɪnkənˈvinjəns/ verb C2- To bother; to discomfort.
He/she/it inconveniences · Past inconvenienced · Past participle inconvenienced · -ing form inconveniencing
Verb forms
- Base form
- inconvenience
- He/she/it
- inconveniences
- Past
- inconvenienced
- Past participle
- inconvenienced
- -ing form
- inconveniencing
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Elizabeth was glad to be taken to her immediately; and Jane, who had only been withheld by the fear of giving alarm or inconvenience, from expressing in her note how much she longed for such a visit, was delighted at her entrance.
If you should have no objection to receive me into your house, I propose myself the satisfaction of waiting on you and your family, Monday, November 18th, by four o’clock, and shall probably trespass on your hospitality till the Saturday se’nnight following, which I can do without any inconvenience, as Lady Catherine is far from objecting to my occasional absence on a Sunday, provided that some other clergyman is engaged to do the duty of the day.
Collins returned into Hertfordshire soon after it had been quitted by the Gardiners and Jane; but, as he took up his abode with the Lucases, his arrival was no great inconvenience to Mrs.
“Lydia will never be easy till she has exposed herself in some public place or other, and we can never expect her to do it with so little expense or inconvenience to her family as under the present circumstances.”
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