discommode

Example Sentences

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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 Dana, John Cotton

I trust my singing did not discommode you.

From Second Plays by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)

And the prominent after-dinner speaker did not further discommode us.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

Just like that; very politely, "Don't discommode yourself."

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund