discommode

American  

[dis-kuh-mohd] / ˌdɪs kəˈmoʊd /

verb (used with object)

discommoded, discommoding

1. to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.

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discommode British  

/ ˌdɪskəˈməʊd /

verb

1. (tr) to cause inconvenience or annoyance to; disturb

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Other Word Forms

• discommodiousness
  noun
• discommodious
  adjective
• discommodiously
  adverb

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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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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

discommode discommoded discommoding

"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

Then he said, with a clearly modulated and rather mincing articulation: 'Would it discommode you to contribute elsewhere a coin with a somewhat different superscription?'

From The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

By 1854 the continuing advance began to discommode rural employers likewise.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

"I am afraid to discommode you, Miss Percival."

From The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware by Kate Percival

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

For a little while we had some warm days—according to the family's estimate; I was hardly discommoded myself.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) by Albert Bigelow Paine

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

"I feared we was discommoding you," ventured the Countess, elegantly apologetic; "your secatary said you was out advisin' one the Vandabilts—" "A mere trifle in the day's work, Madam!"

From Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson

Let me add, here, that it is always proper, when compelled to hurry past those of right before you, at church, or elsewhere in a crowd, to apologize, briefly, but politely, for discommoding any one.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes

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