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 foresaw a difficulty in the lack of small currency, tobacco which was the only specie, being in the governor's words "very incommodious to receive small payments in, and of very uncertain value."

From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir

Dr Nobili lodged in an incommodious hut, and celebrated mass in another hut.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar

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