discomfortable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
But truly I shall be very—very discomfortable if I eat all this riches.
From Round the World in Seven Days by Strang, Herbert
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