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Meanings of inconvenient questions in English

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Usage of inconvenient questions in English
1
A Conservative first raises the matter by inconvenient questions in the House.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
2
I have ship-wrecked Herbert as the shortest way of answering inconvenient questions.
The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story
3
They pocketed the money, dropped two more curtsies, and evaded inconvenient questions.
Just Patty
4
Do take warning, Jeffreys, and avoid the bad habit of asking inconvenient questions.
A Dog with a Bad Name
5
It gave them deniability if anyone started asking inconvenient questions.
The accident man
6
Happily Annora was not present, so inconvenient questions were avoided.
Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of B...
7
Better that, monsieur, than wait to be asked inconvenient questions.
For The Admiral
8
She avoided several inconvenient questions by not answering them but failed to shrug them off.
The Guardian
9
Jeanne is content, and never grumbles, or her lawyers might ask some very inconvenient questions.
Jeanne of the Marshes
10
Why ask any inconvenient questions and spoil it all?
Winding Paths
11
I don't want any one to ask inconvenient questions!
Afterwards
12
Now that Paul Atreides is aware of the Sisterhood's interest in Marie, he may start asking inconvenient questions.
Paul of dune
13
They didn't get those from any asteroid mining, but we needed them, so I didn't ask inconvenient questions.
Beyond The Frontier: Guardian
14
He becomes a puzzle to himself; and to satisfy his newly-awakened curiosity, asks all manner of inconvenient questions.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
15
Best to be under way whilst Volantis sleeps, so no one will ask us inconvenient questions about our destination.
A Dance with Dragons
16
As we rode by, several of the men came up to us and put some impertinent and inconvenient questions.
From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
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