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

For a few Days this seems no ways to incommode the Patient; but as soon as a certain Quantity is accumulated, he is visited again with some of the former Symptoms, 'till another Evacuation ensues.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Would you mind asking her, in reporting to her of what my subject is, whether this extra thousand would incommode them.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry

Every Person knows what Boils are at Sight, which are considerably painful when large, highly inflamed, or so situated as to incommode the Motions, or different Positions of the Body.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

If he had done either, I know I should have said, “Sit still, sir, you will not incommode me, and I hope I shall not annoy you.”

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston