discompose
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This did not seem to discompose him; on the contrary, he looked rather amused.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
It may be he is right: it is not for me to gainsay him, or to further discompose his temper, when all the evidence is so plainly visible.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
You may answer, perhaps, that you did not like to make a fuss, or seem squeamish, or discompose the company; and so, from timidity, you said ‘the thing that was not.’
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
"Your suspicions discompose me very much," and he came back for a candle.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
What have ye seen to discompose ye thus?
From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant
Without the injured Albiston, who had failed to emerge after the half-time break, they were crucially discomposed when Sulley took a corner in the sixtieth minute.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2016
As the poison of jealousy moves through his blood, Leontes’s seething monologues are accompanied by eerie, high-pitched strains in Keith Clouston’s score that cannily evoke the warped perspective of a discomposed mind.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2011
I found Senator Glass lying on top of his counterpane, angrily nursing a bandaged toe, his hair and his pillow and his pajama coat and the bedding discomposed as he tossed to and fro.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I am glad I have done being in love with him. I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning. Harriet’s sweet easy temper will not mind it.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
This last view is not popular, and when brought home to the invader has proved at times extremely discomposing.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
But the interlude, in itself discomposing, had composed my nerves for the while.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In this frame of mind I retired to rest—the idea of anything supernatural never entering my mind, and no shade of fear discomposing my thoughts.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various
There is another kind of disturbance which shows itself also in the first year, and has a certain analogy to the discomposing effect of sound.
From Children's Ways by James Sully
