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
When I left the purser I turned in, for the night was shrewd and discomfortable enough to bar romantic thoughts on leaving the English coast.
From Hurricane Island by Watson, H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott)
Therefore with only going up and down My feet were wasted, and the gracious air, To me discomfortable and dun, became As weak smoke blowing in the under world.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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