discommode
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"Our theory," explains Rich, "is that 95% of the people are honest, and we're not going to discommode 95 people to root out the other five."
From Time Magazine Archive
“That little gal can’t discommode any one in New Constantinople; if she would prefer to have me go out and sleep in the snow, I’ll be glad to do it.”
From A Waif of the Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis
"I'm sure, Saunders, that it won't discommode me in the least," said his lordship genially.
From The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon
"Yet not so far aside as to discommode any one," responded Mason.
From From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer
The war that this assumption wages in my breast against the fact that the man will perhaps be sentenced is too violent a war not to discommode me.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
Blatter had false money thrown at him and he looked most discommoded.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2015
He pointed out that Twitter had been "overflowing with discommoded Labour party supporters" who had sealed off their letterboxes to avoid receiving the Sun's free issue.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2014
Among other "problems" which discommoded Mr. Taft in the White House was the postal problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tansy was momentarily discommoded at the sight of Glenn.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
For a little while we had some warm days—according to the family's estimate; I was hardly discommoded myself.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) by Albert Bigelow Paine
It enacts the experience, purposefully discommoding that part of the audience that has long expected plays to gratify their emotional pleasures and endorse their sense of moral righteousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
The U.S. has only about 8% of its people in uniform, but it still hopes it can finish the war without seriously discommoding the remainder of its civilian population.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a quota cut, while damaging Cuba's economy and discommoding Castro, might seem a petty action for a great power, and probably an ineffective one as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
He must have been rather a discommoding guest, from a little whim he had of sleeping only on straw.
From Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood by Grace Greenwood
We are doing our best to run this institution with as few discommoding rules as possible, but in regard to those play boxes there is one point on which I shall have to be firm.
From Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
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