discommode

Example Sentences

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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

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 Brown, Charles Brockden

By 1854 the continuing advance began to discommode rural employers likewise.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell

“I fear I shall discommode you:” it is better to say, incommode.

From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous

To ask for a guarantor for a reputable resident is simply to discommode two people instead of one.

From A Library Primer by Dana, John Cotton