discompose
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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
The islanders gave Leha and his a cold welcome, but this did not discompose him.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
"I have had something more than fatigue to discompose me," answered I, sobbing; "and I think I have some reproaches to make you, for not attending me home as you promised."
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana
Oh, come—we must be calm; it will never do to discompose ourselves.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Small changes in the household arrangements were likely to discompose him.
From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Comer, Cornelia A. P.
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
In watching his face, I made quite a firework of the Aged’s sausage, and greatly discomposed both my own attention and Wemmick’s; for which I apologised.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
But as his headache began to yield to cold water, discomposing doubts rose upon his clearing mental horizon.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George
So we stood facing one another—Hero and Leander, save that Leander found the effects of his bath more discomposing than the poets give any hint of.
From Dead Man's Rock by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
It was unusual for her and it was discomposing.
From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis
A stranger might well overlook them, but, when turned suddenly in anger or surprise, a steady searching light commenced to glow in them which was discomposing, if not alarming.
From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf
