inconvenienced

inconvenienced
   mainly American
   with permanently impaired faculties
   As in The National Inconvenienced Sportsmen's League (quoted in Rawson, 1981). The deaf may be described as aurally inconvenienced, the blind as visually inconvenienced, and so on.

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