discommode
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of discommode
First recorded in 1650–60; from French discommoder, equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + -commoder, verbal derivative of commode “convenient”; see commode
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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
Lay it across the saddle in front, where its weight will not discommode you.
From The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux by Edward Sylvester Ellis
"I am afraid to discommode you, Miss Percival."
From The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware by Kate Percival
By 1854 the continuing advance began to discommode rural employers likewise.
From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Just like that; very politely, "Don't discommode yourself."
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse
Blatter had false money thrown at him and he looked most discommoded.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2015
He pointed out that Twitter had been "overflowing with discommoded Labour party supporters" who had sealed off their letterboxes to avoid receiving the Sun's free issue.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2014
Among other "problems" which discommoded Mr. Taft in the White House was the postal problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tansy was momentarily discommoded at the sight of Glenn.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
After its long lodgment, during which the subject was little discommoded, it finally came out by the palatine arch.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
It enacts the experience, purposefully discommoding that part of the audience that has long expected plays to gratify their emotional pleasures and endorse their sense of moral righteousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
But a quota cut, while damaging Cuba's economy and discommoding Castro, might seem a petty action for a great power, and probably an ineffective one as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. has only about 8% of its people in uniform, but it still hopes it can finish the war without seriously discommoding the remainder of its civilian population.
From Time Magazine Archive
He must have been rather a discommoding guest, from a little whim he had of sleeping only on straw.
From Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood by Grace Greenwood
See to it that you also get the boys a light wagon, so that they can go to a picnic or a bee without discommoding you.
From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern
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