discommode

"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

For this end it was necessary to discommode myself of my cloak, and of the volume which I carried in the pocket of my cloak.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown

"I am afraid to discommode you, Miss Percival."

From The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware by Kate Percival

Gentlemen, I am sorry to discommode you, but I have orders to intercept all persons entering the city, and hold them until they can satisfactorily account for themselves.

From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton

Lay it across the saddle in front, where its weight will not discommode you.

From The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux by Edward Sylvester Ellis

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

Certainly, Judge, cer—" "You will inform him that I do not intend to be discommoded by his negligence as I pass to my offices.

From The Conquest of Canaan by Booth Tarkington

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

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

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

Maurice bowed stiffly across the table; Herries replied in kind, without discommoding himself.

From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

Now Driscoll supposed, considering the discommoding interest his mission had awakened in everybody except in the Emperor, that the Emperor himself would this time be concerned enough to “get down to business.”

From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle