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
“That little gal can’t discommode any one in New Constantinople; if she would prefer to have me go out and sleep in the snow, I’ll be glad to do it.”
From A Waif of the Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis
For this end it was necessary to discommode myself of my cloak, and of the volume which I carried in the pocket of my cloak.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
He buttoned his velveteen calzoneros down nearly to his ankles, so that their leathern bottoms might not flap open and discommode him.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
An air of breathlessness about Rachel seemed to discommode her friends.
From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht
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
My respects to Borlan when you see him, and tell him I beg his pardon for discommoding him.
From Romance of California Life by John Habberton
M. le Duc, you behold me exceedingly distressed at the discommoding of your household.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
