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'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)

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

The boys shouted to their animals, who flew across the plain as though the snow did not discommode them in the least.

From The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

On every clearing these birds gravely promenaded by half-dozens together, and his cautious gliding across such exposed places did not in the least discommode the dusky company.

From The Delight Makers by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse