discommode
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"Our theory," explains Rich, "is that 95% of the people are honest, and we're not going to discommode 95 people to root out the other five."
From Time Magazine Archive
Just like that; very politely, "Don't discommode yourself."
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse
"I am afraid to discommode you, Miss Percival."
From The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware by Kate Percival
On every clearing these birds gravely promenaded by half-dozens together, and his cautious gliding across such exposed places did not in the least discommode the dusky company.
From The Delight Makers by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
“I fear I shall discommode you:” it is better to say, incommode.
From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous
Blatter had false money thrown at him and he looked most discommoded.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2015
He pointed out that Twitter had been "overflowing with discommoded Labour party supporters" who had sealed off their letterboxes to avoid receiving the Sun's free issue.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2014
Among other "problems" which discommoded Mr. Taft in the White House was the postal problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tansy was momentarily discommoded at the sight of Glenn.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, had never been in a better humor than on that day.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
It enacts the experience, purposefully discommoding that part of the audience that has long expected plays to gratify their emotional pleasures and endorse their sense of moral righteousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
The U.S. has only about 8% of its people in uniform, but it still hopes it can finish the war without seriously discommoding the remainder of its civilian population.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a quota cut, while damaging Cuba's economy and discommoding Castro, might seem a petty action for a great power, and probably an ineffective one as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
M. le Duc, you behold me exceedingly distressed at the discommoding of your household.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
Maurice bowed stiffly across the table; Herries replied in kind, without discommoding himself.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
