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inconvenienced

[in-kuhn-veen-yuhns] Origin

in·con·ven·ience

[in-kuhn-veen-yuhns] noun, verb, -ienced, -ienc·ing.
noun
1.
the quality or state of being inconvenient.
2.
an inconvenient circumstance or thing; something that causes discomfort, trouble, etc.
verb (used with object)
3.
to put to inconvenience or trouble; incommode: He inconvenienced everyone by his constant telephoning.

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Inconvenienced is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin inconvenientia. See in-3, convenience

un·in·con·ven·ienced, adjective
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inconvenience
c.1400, n., "disagreement, absurdity;" from O.Fr. inconvenience (Mod.Fr. inconvenance), from L. inconvenientia, noun of quality from inconvenientem (see inconvenient). Meaning "quality of being inconvenient" is from 1650s. The verb is attested from 1650s.
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