discomfortable

British  

/ dɪsˈkʌmfətəbəl, -ˈkʌmftə- /

adjective

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

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Example Sentences

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

It seems to me a quite ordinary feather: but your prophets—most deservedly, no doubt,—are in higher repute for wisdom than I am, and burning is a discomfortable death.

From Figures of Earth by Cabell, James Branch

For there is that one comfort about this discomfortable and discredited art of ours, that age at any rate does not impair it.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

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