discomfortable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
She bore it through the Women's Garden, wherein were many discomfortable shadows and no living being.
From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by Cabell, James Branch
For ever crumbling, altering with frost and rain, discharging gloomy glaciers of slow-crawling mud, and scarring the hillside with tracts of barrenness, these earth-precipices are among the most ruinous and discomfortable failures of nature.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
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
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