discommode

Example Sentences

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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 Ellis, Edward Sylvester

By 1854 the continuing advance began to discommode rural employers likewise.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell

And so he puts in his time hoping for a wound that will be "cushy" enough not to discommode him much and that will be bad enough to swing Blighty on.

From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby

"I am afraid to discommode you, Miss Percival."

From The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware by Percival, Kate