inconvenience
in·con·ve·nience
noun
1.
2.
a difficulty that causes anxiety
3.
the quality of not being useful or convenient
verb
1.
to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- “Sorry to trouble you, but...”
Origin
From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).
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