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 never went there, and being a loyal British Presence, I should hesitate very strongly before I would discommode the Royal family."
From Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile by Bangs, John Kendrick
"Desolated if I discommode you, monsieur," Lanyard replied with entire amiability--"but not to-night, not at least until I know those jewels have no more chance to go ashore without me."
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph
The war that this assumption wages in my breast against the fact that the man will perhaps be sentenced is too violent a war not to discommode me.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
I'm sorry to discommode you," returned the conductor, "but there's no use kicking.
From The Marrow of Tradition by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)
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
Sculpture, just as it cannot fitly record the gesture of a moment, is discommoded by personal idiosyncrasies.
From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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
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
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
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 Greenwood, Grace
Maurice bowed stiffly across the table; Herries replied in kind, without discommoding himself.
From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel
