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

At Newgate was a small, incommodious, and fever-haunted prison for criminals; and at Ludgate was another prison, appropriated to debtors, trespassers, and those who committed contempt of Court.

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

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

The buildings are of free stone, beautifully polished, and of recent erection, the old buildings, which were unsightly and incommodious, having been taken down to make way for this elegant and spacious structure.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert