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
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 trust my singing did not discommode you.
From Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
If you can wait till then—I mean without discomfort, without inconvenience—it will be a large accommodation to me; but I will not allow you to do this favor if it will discommode you.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Albert Bigelow Paine
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
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 week, he said, and no more, I should be discommoded; and after that, when I had come back from Hare Street, I should be able to entertain my friends in peace.
From Oddsfish! by Robert Hugh Benson
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
"I feared he was discommoding you," ventured the Countess, elegantly apologetic.
From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson
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
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