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

If you can wait till then—I mean without discomfort, without inconvenience—it will be a large accommodation to me; but I will not allow you to do this favor if it will discommode you.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

Then he said, with a clearly modulated and rather mincing articulation: 'Would it discommode you to contribute elsewhere a coin with a somewhat different superscription?'

From The Wisdom of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

An air of breathlessness about Rachel seemed to discommode her friends.

From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben

And the prominent after-dinner speaker did not further discommode us.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen