inconvenient

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If we don't change downtown, it will stay as it is -- inconvenient, noisy, downright unsafe in some respects, and absolutely devoid of the shoppers needed to make the area viable for businesses.

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  1. adjective Not convenient, especially:
  2. adjective Not accessible; hard to reach.
  3. adjective Not suited to one's comfort, purpose, or needs: inconvenient to have no phone in the kitchen.
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  • Although the potential change will be viewed as inconvenient, the adjustment could indicate the inclusion of a higher-capacity battery. —  MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
  • Although inconvenient, a week seemed to me to be appropriate to fix an issue such as this. —  The Industry Standard - Comments
  • Sometimes it's messy and inconvenient, and reaching the best conclusion is never quick because speed is not the first objective: fairness is. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Many phones require extra hardware (that is overpriced by phon companies) in order to connect their phone to their computer. this may be slightly inconvenient, but a better deal. especially considering they can transfer the music from the microsd into the phone's onboard memory. and then perhaps back onto a larger primary microsd card they use. as i said, inconvenient, but if you only by an album so often, not too bad an idea. —  Techdirt
  • "Sometimes it's messy and inconvenient, and reaching the best conclusion is never quick because speed is not the first objective, fairness is." —  Winnipeg Sun
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  1. from Middle English inconvenient, from Old French inconvenient, French inconvénient = Provencal inconvenient, inconvenien = Spanish Portuguese Italian inconveniente, from Latin inconvenien(t-)s, not accordant, inconsistent, from in- privative + convenien(t-)s, accordant, convenient: see convenient.
 

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