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
"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
An air of breathlessness about Rachel seemed to discommode her friends.
From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht
He guaranteed to produce Peter at any time he was needed, and was perfectly willing to discommode himself to the extent of leaving the man behind if they insisted on holding him.
From Green Fancy by George Barr McCutcheon
The boys shouted to their animals, who flew across the plain as though the snow did not discommode them in the least.
From The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tansy was momentarily discommoded at the sight of Glenn.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
For which he received payment in the permission to pass that night without being discommoded by the chain.
From The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Maurice bowed stiffly across the table; Herries replied in kind, without discommoding himself.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
Let me add, here, that it is always proper, when compelled to hurry past those of right before you, at church, or elsewhere in a crowd, to apologize, briefly, but politely, for discommoding any one.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
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