discomfort
noun
an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
discomfortingly
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a word derived from
discomfort.
Example Sentences
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But the varied customs of ancestral societies should give us pause, because they appear to have evolved in response to some discomfortingly hard-nosed trade-offs.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2020
In that discomfortingly close range between the unlikeliest of friends, and between rapture and repulsion, the film finds its compelling edge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
And intensive “topsoil” therapies like Applied Behavior Analysis can, in some cases, teach autistic children to control their symptoms, though the reward-driven philosophy of ABA reminds some discomfortingly of dog training.
From Newsweek
She turned those too sharp eyes on me discomfortingly.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
Dirk rode so close that his horse shouldered Bud's leg discomfortingly.
From Cow-Country by Bower, B. M.
