discommode
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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
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"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 Kate Percival
Every change does discommode some class or classes of persons, and part of the opposition to specific changes comes from those whom they would adversely affect.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
If you can wait till then—I mean without discomfort, without inconvenience—it will be a large accommodation to me; but I will not allow you to do this favor if it will discommode you.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Albert Bigelow Paine
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 Robert Derby Holmes
Blatter had false money thrown at him and he looked most discommoded.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2015
He pointed out that Twitter had been "overflowing with discommoded Labour party supporters" who had sealed off their letterboxes to avoid receiving the Sun's free issue.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2014
Among other "problems" which discommoded Mr. Taft in the White House was the postal problem.
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Tansy was momentarily discommoded at the sight of Glenn.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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He was not discommoded by rifle or pistol, and could not have been better prepared for climbing.
From Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) by Edward Sylvester Ellis
It enacts the experience, purposefully discommoding that part of the audience that has long expected plays to gratify their emotional pleasures and endorse their sense of moral righteousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
The U.S. has only about 8% of its people in uniform, but it still hopes it can finish the war without seriously discommoding the remainder of its civilian population.
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But a quota cut, while damaging Cuba's economy and discommoding Castro, might seem a petty action for a great power, and probably an ineffective one as well.
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"But I am afraid of discommoding you, my dear young lady, and can easily sleep on board, though I will take advantage of your kindness now, to rest on your bed for a short time."
From Woman As She Should Be or, Agnes Wiltshire by Mary E. Herbert
He must have been rather a discommoding guest, from a little whim he had of sleeping only on straw.
From Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood by Grace Greenwood