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

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

"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 Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)

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 Beerbohm, Max, Sir

I objected, for I did not wish to discommode him in the least and told him a good bed could be fixed in the mess wagon.

From Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events by Patterson, H. DeF.