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

Armrest cupholder: slightly inconveniently sized for my glass of rosé, which is exactly the level of problem one wants to encounter in life.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

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

She touches a round white button on her uniform with what might be an inconveniently trembling finger.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr