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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

The dusky stillness wrought upon the nerves of the riders, producing a vague, discomfortable sense of foreboding.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud

You can see how quick it goes, and I'll say no more about Mr. Bow-wow, only you must understand the perpetual accompaniment of this discomfortable sound, and make allowances for the value of my copy.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But men are more nicely sensible of a discomfort; and the atoll is a discomfortable home.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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