incommode
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I submitted that no thought could be further from Dr. Trefusis’s intent than to incommode such an excellent hostess.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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We first incommode with our presence the governor of the Cyclades, a patriotic Greek, who speaks good English and good sense.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
To execute this Project they posted themselves behind the Scheld, from whence they indeed did very much incommode us.
"Well, well, I don't want to incommode you,"—shifting his feet uncertainly.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
If circumstances render it impossible for the rope to be kept taut by itself, the men behind should gather it up round their hands,205 and not allow it to incommode those in advance.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
“He can, indeed, on a rainy day, devour half a dozen volumes of summer reading, and be no more incommoded than when he swallows as many jellies and puffs at the fashionable confectioners.”
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2020
But his genius once awakened, his faults were shaken off as a garment that would have incommoded the flight of his imagination .
From Time Magazine Archive
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“I wouldn’t have incommoded none of you, if I’d had my way.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Jacques Bastien, incommoded by his great corpulence, had not, in spite of his efforts, succeeded in getting out of the carriage; this circumstance saved him.
From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Eug?ne Sue
Though slightly incommoded by her situation, Ozema had always received his visits with guileless delight, and her progress in Spanish had been such as to astonish even her teacher.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
A police spokesperson said that Mr Cohen was charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding - a misdemeanour offence often used in civil disobedience cases in the US capital.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
All were charged with disturbing the peace through crowding, obstructing or incommoding, police spokeswoman Eva Malecki told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
Dozens of people were charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding, including 78 who were arrested in the Senate office buildings.
From Fox News ● Oct. 5, 2018
“After officers arrived on the scene, they warned the demonstrators to cease and desist with their unlawful demonstration activities,” Malecki wrote in a statement, saying that protesters were charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2017
Diogenes could not understand it; and so he sidled consolingly against Peggy, to the incommoding of her progress as she hurried him away down the road.
From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by F.E. Mills Young