discommode

"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

I trust my singing did not discommode you.

From Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

The war that this assumption wages in my breast against the fact that the man will perhaps be sentenced is too violent a war not to discommode me.

From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm

I'm sorry to discommode you," returned the conductor, "but there's no use kicking.

From The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

Then he said, with a clearly modulated and rather mincing articulation: 'Would it discommode you to contribute elsewhere a coin with a somewhat different superscription?'

From The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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

After its long lodgment, during which the subject was little discommoded, it finally came out by the palatine arch.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

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

"I feared we was discommoding you," ventured the Countess, elegantly apologetic; "your secatary said you was out advisin' one the Vandabilts—" "A mere trifle in the day's work, Madam!"

From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson

But some courses of action are too discommoding and obnoxious to others to allow of this course being pursued.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey