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
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
I am vexed that we must incommode ourselves for such rubbish; but it cannot be helped, such are the times.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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 S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
"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
“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
“I wouldn’t have incommoded none of you, if I’d had my way.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
They endeavoured to get into my good graces by teaching me how to carry my irons without being incommoded.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
The actress was charged with "crowding, obstructing or incommoding."
From Fox News ● Oct. 15, 2019
“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
You know the Duke of Zollern and myself have long ceased incommoding ourselves for each other's sakes, with the consequence that we are really friends.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay
