discommode
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of discommode
First recorded in 1650–60; from French discommoder, equivalent to dis- dis- 1 + -commoder, verbal derivative of commode “convenient”; see commode
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"Our theory," explains Rich, "is that 95% of the people are honest, and we're not going to discommode 95 people to root out the other five."
From Time Magazine Archive
I trust my singing did not discommode you.
From Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
And the prominent after-dinner speaker did not further discommode us.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
Pray do not let us discommode you or your household.
From Viola Gwyn by George Barr McCutcheon
I objected, for I did not wish to discommode him in the least and told him a good bed could be fixed in the mess wagon.
From Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events by H. DeF. Patterson
Blatter had false money thrown at him and he looked most discommoded.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2015
He pointed out that Twitter had been "overflowing with discommoded Labour party supporters" who had sealed off their letterboxes to avoid receiving the Sun's free issue.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2014
Among other "problems" which discommoded Mr. Taft in the White House was the postal problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tansy was momentarily discommoded at the sight of Glenn.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, had never been in a better humor than on that day.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
It enacts the experience, purposefully discommoding that part of the audience that has long expected plays to gratify their emotional pleasures and endorse their sense of moral righteousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
The U.S. has only about 8% of its people in uniform, but it still hopes it can finish the war without seriously discommoding the remainder of its civilian population.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a quota cut, while damaging Cuba's economy and discommoding Castro, might seem a petty action for a great power, and probably an ineffective one as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now Driscoll supposed, considering the discommoding interest his mission had awakened in everybody except in the Emperor, that the Emperor himself would this time be concerned enough to “get down to business.”
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
M. le Duc, you behold me exceedingly distressed at the discommoding of your household.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
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