Reminds me of the word in Pynchon's oeuvre. For P mostly the negative is intended, I think but with smiling sometimes....

[Mark Kohut]

*On the Inconvenience of Other People* redescribes discomfort,
interpersonal friction, and dependency as potentially productive states—not
merely annoying ones—and as new modes that might help us do more than
merely survive, to be inconvenient to the reproduction of that which ails
us.