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
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
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
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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