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
The abrupt question seemed neither to surprise nor to discompose the butler; yet he hesitated before finally answering: "I—I don't quite know, my lord."
From Who? by Elizabeth Kent
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
Disease is = dis-ease, discompose, as used by Phineas Fletcher: cf. vol. iii. p.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
His complexion may trouble the physiologists; but is not likely to discompose the poetical reader under the tuition of Christopher North.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
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
He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
She saw how Romero avoided every brusque movement and saved his bulls for the last when he wanted them, not winded and discomposed but smoothly worn down.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
He touched his cap to the discomposing stranger and marched up to the big house on the ledges; he was not approaching with alacrity what was ahead of him.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
He had not learned before that ladies' eyes are sometimes very discomposing.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
The discomposing rocking of the vessel continued, and the moan of the winds mingled with the incessant complaints of Mrs. Butler on a distant sofa, who was as communicative respecting her anguish as her age.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
A stranger might well overlook them, but, when turned suddenly in anger or surprise, a steady searching light commenced to glow in them which was discomposing, if not alarming.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
