discomfortable

British  

/ dɪsˈkʌmfətəbəl, -ˈkʌmftə- /

adjective

1. archaic tending to deprive of mental or physical ease or comfort

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Example Sentences

Manuel's blood and Jurgen's ran in the veins of Florian de Puysange—a heroic but discomfortable inheritance.

From Time Magazine Archive

It pains me to provide you with this intelligence, for truth should sit with comfort, falsehood with vexation; and yet, in such a case, verity—though discomfortable — is absolutely required.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Be sure to see the little Nohant domestic theatre, by the way—and judge what a part it played in that discomfortable house.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry

Someone cried out that all was lost; the men were in the very humour to lend an ear to a discomfortable counsel; the cry was taken up. 

From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But there was everything, for our apprehension, in the lucky fact that no discomfortable legend, no perturbation of scullions, had ever, within anyone's memory attached to the kind old place.

From The Turn of the Screw by James, Henry