incommodious

Example Sentences

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The industry first consolidated and then, under the auspices of Harold Wilson and Roy Jenkins, started its collapse into the relatively incommodious entity it is today.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012

Within, the stockade was cramped, some five hundred men gathered in a small and incommodious yard between tents.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

He complains that his house at Mortlake was too public for his studies, and incommodious for receiving the numerous foreign literati who resorted to him.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

What is he that can reckon all the incommodious life that the most foolish soldiers suffer in the field?

From Against War by Erasmus, Desiderius

After stumbling over a footstool, and being incommoded by other "incommodious commodities," she at length sinks exhausted upon a sofa, just opposite to a "mirror that reflected."

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert