inconveniently
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Then came the inconveniently timed rain, which suspended play for almost an hour and ground the fourth set to a halt in a fourth-set tie-break - with Norrie three points from victory.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
“The beautiful multi-coloured ‘northern lights’—flickering shafts of light that lit up the sky—would at times, inconveniently for the Allies, provide just what the U- boat commanders needed to locate the convoys through their periscopes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
But inconveniently for journalists, this one does not map neatly to the made-up categories the government uses for statistical purposes.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2023
Their NFL-record streak of starting a season with a touchdown in 11 straight quarters ended inconveniently in the fourth.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
Most inconveniently it cut across the line they had chosen.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
