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discomfortable

British  
/ dɪsˈkʌmfətəbəl, -ˈkʌmftə- /

adjective

  1. archaic tending to deprive of mental or physical ease or comfort

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

He seemed to mean it as a sort of introduction, in spite of the discomfortable irony of his tone.

From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell

Singing was their refuge from discomfortable thoughts and sensations.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Then, suddenly, Ashe was assailed by an inner laughter, hollow and discomfortable.

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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