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
Small changes in the household arrangements were likely to discompose him.
From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. Comer
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
Disease is = dis-ease, discompose, as used by Phineas Fletcher: cf. vol. iii. p.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
My approach seemed to discompose them not a little.
From Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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
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
Smith had no headache, but only wanted to speak to the doctor about his lodgers, whose "ways" were sadly discomposing to himself and his wife.
From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
It was discomposing to find the key of the real door standing, ready for turning, in the lock.
From The Doomsman by Van Tassel Sutphen
So we stood facing one another—Hero and Leander, save that Leander found the effects of his bath more discomposing than the poets give any hint of.
From Dead Man's Rock by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
But all this, though discomposing, was no more than I had begun to expect.
From Wandering Heath by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
