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

"I am afraid to discommode you, Miss Percival."

From The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware by Percival, Kate

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

He guaranteed to produce Peter at any time he was needed, and was perfectly willing to discommode himself to the extent of leaving the man behind if they insisted on holding him.

From Green Fancy by McCutcheon, George Barr

I'm sorry to discommode you," returned the conductor, "but there's no use kicking.

From The Marrow of Tradition by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)