incommodious

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The place is small and incommodious, the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable, but the shabby little chapel is a palace of art.

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  1. adjective Inconvenient or uncomfortable, as by not affording sufficient space.

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  • The palais is one of the worst kept possible--the most incommodious, and the most dirty; the maison de ville is still worse. —  Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
  • It was small, incommodious, and plain; in no respect likely to excite the jealousy of a people peculiarly averse to all pomp or parade, even in their chief magistrate. —  The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815
  • The commonest and most incommodious are called Carriols. —  Visit to Iceland
  • Let a dwelling be ever so poor and incommodious, yet a family with decent and cleanly habits will contrive to make the best of it, and will take care that there shall be nothing offensive in it which they have power to remove. —  Thrift
  • They expected to fare worse on the battle-front in France where they would spend their honeymoon There was some hesitation as to which of their two rooms at the hotel was the less incommodious, but the furniture had been magically changed. —  We Can't Have Everything
 

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  1. from in- + commodious, after L. incommodus, inconvenient: see incommode, adjective
 

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