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

An air of breathlessness about Rachel seemed to discommode her friends.

From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben

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 Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell

For this end it was necessary to discommode myself of my cloak, and of the volume which I carried in the pocket of my cloak.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

Gentlemen, I am sorry to discommode you, but I have orders to intercept all persons entering the city, and hold them until they can satisfactorily account for themselves.

From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Pinkerton, Allan