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
Then he said, with a clearly modulated and rather mincing articulation: 'Would it discommode you to contribute elsewhere a coin with a somewhat different superscription?'
From The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Just like that; very politely, "Don't discommode yourself."
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse
Pray do not let us discommode you or your household.
From Viola Gwyn by George Barr McCutcheon
He buttoned his velveteen calzoneros down nearly to his ankles, so that their leathern bottoms might not flap open and discommode him.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
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
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
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
M. le Duc, you behold me exceedingly distressed at the discommoding of your household.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
It was impossible to do this without discommoding the legs of the company and annoying them beyond measure.
From The Blue Pavilions by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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