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'm sure, Saunders, that it won't discommode me in the least," said his lordship genially.
From The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon
"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 John Kendrick Bangs
I'm sorry to discommode you," returned the conductor, "but there's no use kicking.
From The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
By 1854 the continuing advance began to discommode rural employers likewise.
From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
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 will not take up more room than he is entitled to while other passengers are discommoded.
From Etiquette by Agnes H. Morton
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
"I feared he was discommoding you," ventured the Countess, elegantly apologetic.
From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson
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