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discomfortable

British  
/ dɪsˈkʌmfətəbəl, -ˈkʌmftə- /

adjective

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

He could get no more out of her, as they stood there under the painted face which looked down upon them with discomfortable laughter.

From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch

For a colder, more taciturn and discomfortable hostess could not be conceived.

From Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

He seemed to mean it as a sort of introduction, in spite of the discomfortable irony of his tone.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

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