discompose

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

I do not wish to discompose you, Madam," said Mr. Talton, coolly; "pray be seated.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Sophia Reeve

"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

You may answer, perhaps, that you did not like to make a fuss, or seem squeamish, or discompose the company; and so, from timidity, you said ‘the thing that was not.’

From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate

"I have had something more than fatigue to discompose me," answered I, sobbing; "and I think I have some reproaches to make you, for not attending me home as you promised."

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish

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

He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

She saw how Romero avoided every brusque movement and saved his bulls for the last when he wanted them, not winded and discomposed but smoothly worn down.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

When I faced her at the trench she reared, and whirled round, and pranced backwards in, considering the circumstances, a highly discomposing way.

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

There is nothing quite so discomposing as the scornful rejection of proffers of self-seeking philanthropy.

From The Blue Goose by Frank Lewis Nason

In this frame of mind I retired to rest—the idea of anything supernatural never entering my mind, and no shade of fear discomposing my thoughts.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various

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