discompose
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This did not seem to discompose him; on the contrary, he looked rather amused.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Of course the failure did not discompose me, nor shake my belief.
From There is no Death by Florence Marryatt
"I would never make demands upon him that he should love me always," the girl proceeded, with a gentle solemnity that this kind of flippant witticism could not discompose.
From A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 A Novel by Ada Cambridge
And often, when her father was talking to her and she giving mechanical replies, suddenly her cheek would burn like fire, and the old man would wonder what he had said to discompose her.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
No one goes with any exaggerated expectations of enjoyment; but as little does he anticipate anything to discompose or displease him.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
Without the injured Albiston, who had failed to emerge after the half-time break, they were crucially discomposed when Sulley took a corner in the sixtieth minute.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2016
As the poison of jealousy moves through his blood, Leontes’s seething monologues are accompanied by eerie, high-pitched strains in Keith Clouston’s score that cannily evoke the warped perspective of a discomposed mind.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2011
I found Senator Glass lying on top of his counterpane, angrily nursing a bandaged toe, his hair and his pillow and his pajama coat and the bedding discomposed as he tossed to and fro.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Karkaroff, Harry saw, looked slightly discomposed to see them standing there.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
But all this, though discomposing, was no more than I had begun to expect.
From Wandering Heath by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Not a hurried or discomposing one, for the grey horses, knowing that there was plenty of time before them, never changed their pace from a stately walk the whole way.
From Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes by Robert Barnes
My word!" exclaimed Mr. Brimberly, retreating rather precipitately, "this is very discomposing, this is!
From The Definite Object A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol
They could then concentrate their minds upon their art free from those hundred-and-one discomposing and disconcerting influences which are the concomitants of modern civilisation.
From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery
