Caterham's one-year warranty made sure these proved merely inconvenient, but for those covering such mileage over four years this will prove cold comfort.

The only way to shut it up, in my experience, is to remind myself that the consequences would probably not be very exciting, merely inconvenient, which is boring.

Merely inconvenient, when you're used to people keeping their promises to stay places until you get back to them.

Shift-work hours are not merely inconvenient but they can be disturbing to the functioning of the whole family.

Some of these would cause the helicopter to crash, while others were merely inconvenient.

A generous smearing of poison on the pointed prongs made the caltrops lethal as opposed to merely inconvenient.

Chronic pain can be mild or excruciating, episodic or continuous, merely inconvenient or totally incapacitating.

In this instance, it is merely inconvenient if Ray revokes access to the driveway.

This tiny, brightly painted café is an old favourite, dating back to the days when good chocolate was impossible (as opposed to merely inconvenient) to find.

It wasn't merely inconvenient; it was catastrophic.