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
To ask for a guarantor for a reputable resident is simply to discommode two people instead of one.
From A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana
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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tansy was momentarily discommoded at the sight of Glenn.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
For a little while we had some warm days—according to the family's estimate; I was hardly discommoded myself.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) by Albert Bigelow Paine
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
But some courses of action are too discommoding and obnoxious to others to allow of this course being pursued.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey
My respects to Borlan when you see him, and tell him I beg his pardon for discommoding him.
From Romance of California Life by John Habberton
