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
"I would never make demands upon him that he should love me always," the girl proceeded, with a gentle solemnity that this kind of flippant witticism could not discompose.
From A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 A Novel by Ada Cambridge
"It is so, in truth," said Sancho, "since the noise of the hammers of a fulling-mill were sufficient to disturb and discompose the heart of so valorous a knight as your worship."
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Small changes in the household arrangements were likely to discompose him.
From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. Comer
But you cannot upset the punt any more than you can discompose the Englishman; the punt simply upsets you without seeming to be aware of it.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
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
He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Karkaroff, Harry saw, looked slightly discomposed to see them standing there.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
My word!" exclaimed Mr. Brimberly, retreating rather precipitately, "this is very discomposing, this is!
From The Definite Object A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol
When I faced her at the trench she reared, and whirled round, and pranced backwards in, considering the circumstances, a highly discomposing way.
From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville
"This is both unnecessary and excessively discomposing," he muttered; "I fear Poitou has not been judicious enough in his selections."
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
"It probes the secrets of capitalism and labor, of politics and journalism with a surety and a conviction almost discomposing."
From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Charles Felton Pidgin
