discommode

"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

On every clearing these birds gravely promenaded by half-dozens together, and his cautious gliding across such exposed places did not in the least discommode the dusky company.

From The Delight Makers by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier

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 Sir Max Beerbohm

"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

"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 Louis Joseph Vance

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

After its long lodgment, during which the subject was little discommoded, it finally came out by the palatine arch.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

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

Let me add, here, that it is always proper, when compelled to hurry past those of right before you, at church, or elsewhere in a crowd, to apologize, briefly, but politely, for discommoding any one.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes