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
"Yet not so far aside as to discommode any one," responded Mason.
From From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer
"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
Moreover, the bonds were apparently of some broad, soft substance like sacking or harness webbing, so that, after Bob had moved from his constrained position, they did not excessively discommode him.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
"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
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
Thirty months after the accident the patient had perfect vision, and the eye had never in the slightest way discommoded him.
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
I kept silent for fear of discommoding him.
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
He must have been rather a discommoding guest, from a little whim he had of sleeping only on straw.
From Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood by Grace Greenwood
