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INCONVENIENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inconveniently mean? 

INCONVENIENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb INCONVENIENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in an inconvenient mannerplay

  Familiarity information: INCONVENIENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INCONVENIENTLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In an inconvenient manner

Context example:

he arrived at an inconveniently late hour

Antonym:

conveniently (in a convenient manner)

Pertainym:

inconvenient (not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs)


 Context examples 


She was not struck by any thing remarkably clever in Miss Smith's conversation, but she found her altogether very engaging—not inconveniently shy, not unwilling to talk—and yet so far from pushing, shewing so proper and becoming a deference, seeming so pleasantly grateful for being admitted to Hartfield, and so artlessly impressed by the appearance of every thing in so superior a style to what she had been used to, that she must have good sense, and deserve encouragement.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)



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