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
And often, when her father was talking to her and she giving mechanical replies, suddenly her cheek would burn like fire, and the old man would wonder what he had said to discompose her.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
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
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
My approach seemed to discompose them not a little.
From Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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
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
He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
In watching his face, I made quite a firework of the Aged’s sausage, and greatly discomposed both my own attention and Wemmick’s; for which I apologised.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
"It probes the secrets of capitalism and labor, of politics and journalism with a surety and a conviction almost discomposing."
From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Charles Felton Pidgin
Regular or irregular hours for meals were passed over with the same discomposing smiles.
From The Blue Goose by Frank Lewis Nason
Not a hurried or discomposing one, for the grey horses, knowing that there was plenty of time before them, never changed their pace from a stately walk the whole way.
From Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes by Robert Barnes
It was a little discomposing on account of there being so little time to get your breath in.
From The Very Small Person by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
