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
My approach seemed to discompose them not a little.
From Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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
What have ye seen to discompose ye thus?
From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant
Far be it from me to willingly discompose an artist," replied Manasseh drily, "though from the elegance of the design, I venture to think my interruption will not make a hair's-breadth of difference.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
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
“I am glad I have done being in love with him. I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning. Harriet’s sweet easy temper will not mind it.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
When I had extinguished my candle this one bright patch in the midst of the general gloom had certainly an eerie and discomposing aspect.
From The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It was a little discomposing on account of there being so little time to get your breath in.
From The Very Small Person by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
He touched his cap to the discomposing stranger and marched up to the big house on the ledges; he was not approaching with alacrity what was ahead of him.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
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
