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

From her apartment she was attended by several of the principal gentlemen of the neighborhood, who had come to protect her from the approach of any thing that might discompose her.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

"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

The presence of Frederick did not discompose him.

From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Gustave Flaubert

The vehemence with which I put this question seemed to discompose my attendant.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

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

The young man Sorve, not at all discomposed, led me on and brought me into the Inner Hearth to the Lord of Estre.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

This we fortunately accomplished without seriously discomposing our patient, and the surgeon then administered a soothing draught, the effect of which was to put the sufferer to sleep in a few minutes.

From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Edward S. Hodgson

But as his headache began to yield to cold water, discomposing doubts rose upon his clearing mental horizon.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald

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