discomfortable
Britishadjective
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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
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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
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Charlestown, July 16, 1630," are these sentences:—"We have met with many sad & discomfortable things, as thou shalt hear after; & ye Lord's hand hath been heavy upon myself in some very near to me.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
But there was everything, for our apprehension, in the lucky fact that no discomfortable legend, no perturbation of scullions, had ever, within anyone's memory attached to the kind old place.
From The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
It made the perspiration stream, and then the dust rose from the road, and the two together caused the most discomfortable grime!
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
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