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
Be sure to see the little Nohant domestic theatre, by the way—and judge what a part it played in that discomfortable house.
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry
Pastor Spener had learned to fight shy of so many suspicions, so many discomfortable questions.
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
He thought not without a discomfortable humor of what a French husband would have made of a similar situation—recalling the remark of a French acquaintance on some case illustrating the freedom of English wives.
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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