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inconvenience

/ɪnkənˈvinjəns/ noun C1
  1. The quality of being inconvenient. (countable, uncountable)
  2. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers. (countable, uncountable)

Plural inconveniences

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He was disagreeably surprised to see his own valet de chambre, whom he had not brought, that he might not inconvenience Monte Cristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 861 · C1
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.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 70 · B2
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.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 168 · B2
What he told me was merely this: that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage, but without mentioning names or any other particulars; and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from knowing them to have been together the whole of last summer.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 215 · B2

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