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

"There were carpets on every floor, chairs that were moveable, mirrors that reflected, sofas to sink on, footstools to stumble over; in a word, all the incommodious commodities of my own cabin in Kildare street."

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

The apartment into which the young noble had been thus ushered, seemed to have been hastily fitted up with such resources of a lady's chamber as the cumbrous and incommodious fashion of the day offered.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various