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These melanist notions and other extremes of Afrocentrism are discomforting to many black educators.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the State Department quizzes its employees at the 225- member embassy, the initial responses, says one source, "are discomforting."

From Time Magazine Archive

Wind, snow, sleet and rainstorms are discomforting enough under trying circumstances; but all combined, they are nothing to the choking stinging, blinding sandstorm.

From The Last of the Plainsmen by Grey, Zane