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
She bore it through the Women's Garden, wherein were many discomfortable shadows and no living being.
From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by James Branch Cabell
"I foresee," said the discomfortable saint, "that within a few days you will die."
From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry
Some one cried out that all was lost; the men were in the very humour to lend an ear to a discomfortable counsel; the cry was taken up.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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