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inconˈveniently, adv.
[f. inconvenient a. + -ly2.]
In an inconvenient manner.
†1. Unsuitably, inappropriately; unbecomingly, improperly; inconsistently, incongruously. Obs.
1509Barclay Shyp Folys Argt., This present Boke myght haue ben callyd nat inconuenyently the Satyr. 1549Latimer 5th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 147 One wyl say, peraduenture, you speake vnsemelye, and inconuenientlye, so to be agaynste the offycers. 1552Huloet, Inconuenientlye, or dishonestly, or contrary to reason, absurde. Inconuenientlye, or out of due tyme, intempestiue.
2. With inconvenience, trouble, or discomfort; uncomfortably, incommodiously.
a1656Bp. Hall Mourners in Sion (R.), There is many an holy soul that dwels inconveniently, in a crazy, tottering, ruinous cottage. 1665G. Havers P. della Valle's Trav. E. India 111 We stay'd under a great Tree..spent this night inconveniently and supper-less. 1717Berkeley Jrnl. Tour Italy 2 June, Wks. 1871 IV. 559 Inconveniently cold for several hours this morning. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxxv, I am afraid you'll find it inconveniently large. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xii, Things may turn out inconveniently after all. |