encumbrance

In LA, Don is an outsider; a Madison Avenue interloper; an encumbrance.

Dangerfield was no longer conscious of anything but an angry determination to revolt, to be free of all encumbrance.

The cargo of the sloop hoisted on to the deck by the capstan, compact as he had made it, was an encumbrance.

So desperate had been the charge that our little craft was now actually a serious encumbrance to the monster.

An' sell Bruno; he's a vicious brute—nothin' but an encumbrance.

They set to work together to remove the irons, and his legs were at length freed from this encumbrance at about five oclock.