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a commodious building suitable for conventions
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In every Court, ample and commodious provision is made for the accommodation of the citizens.† (source)
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My cottage is clean and weather-proof; my furniture sufficient and commodious.† (source)
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I worked at a commodious green-topped table placed directly in front of the west window which looked out over the prairie.† (source)
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This house yields to its landlord over two hundred a year, or rather more than the rent of a commodious mansion in South Kensington.† (source)
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She had a small print of a Whistler, the famous Mother, and she hung it in a corner of the spare room because she thought it was generally unlocked at and because she liked the formal balances and truthful muted colors and because the picture was so dashingly modern, the seated woman in mobcap and commodious dark dress, a figure lifted out of her time into the abstract arrangements of the twentieth century, long before she was ready, it seemed, but Klara also liked looking right through the tonal components, the high theory of color, the theory of paint itself, perhaps—looking into the depths of the picture, at the mother, the woman, the mother herself, the anecdotal aspect of a woman in a c† (source)
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The hangman, an anonymous, leathery gentleman who had been imported from Missouri for the event, for which he was paid six hundred dollars, was attired in an aged double-breasted pinstriped suit overly commodious for the narrow figure inside it-the coat came nearly to his knees; and on his head he wore a cowboy hat which, when first bought, had perhaps been bright green, but was now a weathered, sweat-stained oddity.† (source)
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Incommodious, you might say.† (source)Incommodious = uncomfortably or inconveniently smallstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incommodious means not and reverses the meaning of commodious. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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The site fixed upon at the representation of the insurance companies, and as being as central a spot as any other on the globe, was one of the broadest prairies of the West, where no human habitation would be endangered by the flames, and where a vast assemblage of spectators might commodiously admire the show.† (source)
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With such commodiousness of situation, these two learned persons sat themselves down, each in his own domain, yet familiarly passing from one apartment to the other, and bestowing a mutual and not incurious inspection into one another's business.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Now, the first time Ahab was perched aloft; ere he had been there ten minutes; one of those red-billed savage sea-hawks which so often fly incommodiously close round the manned mast-heads of whalemen in these latitudes; one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings.† (source)incommodiously = while uncomfortably or inconveniently smallstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incommodiously means not and reverses the meaning of commodiously. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness.† (source)incommodiousness = the quality of being uncomfortably or inconveniently smallstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incommodiousness means not and reverses the meaning of commodiousness. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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I have secured rooms in the residence of a Major C. D. Humphrey, which although not luxurious, will be commodious enough for my purposes.† (source)
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When we halted before the house of the Rector, a small and incommodious cabin, neither handsome nor more comfortable than those of his neighbors, I saw a man in the act of shoeing a horse, a hammer in his hand, and a leathern apron tied round his waist.† (source)incommodious = uncomfortably or inconveniently small
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This incident made a considerable impression on my mind, and contributed with other circumstances to indispose me to a permanent residence in the city of Vanity; although, of course, I was not simple enough to give up my original plan of gliding along easily and commodiously by railroad.† (source)
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Adams was by then established in his commodious new residence in Amsterdam on the Keizersgracht.† (source)
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