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discomforting

ADJECTIVE
comfortless
Synonyms








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That calmed worries that had built on Wall Street that the inflation data could show a discomforting reacceleration.

From Seattle Times Feb. 29, 2024

The discomforting intimacy of the sequence has stayed with him.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2023

The discomforting reality is that, while Altman and his ilk have been predicting an exponential acceleration of productivity, we have been experiencing a deceleration.

From Salon Mar. 19, 2023

The absence of a human hand — made glaring and discomforting through the tiniest lapses of approximated intuition — can render the listening experience a valueless exchange, the music a bunk currency.

From Washington Post Feb. 16, 2023

But the fact is, once I had sat down to supper at their table, once a number of their neighbours had come calling, a most discomforting set of events began to unfold around me.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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