incommode

• What was apparently done to incommode or discourage me has been shown to have been done either for my own benefit or for some other purpose, not to my harm. —  Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
• Some portions of the earth would have been scorched to crispness, others locked up in never-changing ice Vegetation, instead of being universal, would have been confined to a narrow zone; and the whole human race would have been driven together into one limited habitable space, to interfere with, incommode, and destroy each other. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860
• With the fall of night had come a mist just damp enough to incommode, but not sufficient to saturate them. —  Wessex Tales
• The manner in which she entered the carriage and prepared herself for the journey, the slight disturbance she caused among those around her, the care she took not to incommode or give trouble to anyone, all showed that she was accustomed to be alone, and to depend on herself only Michael Strogoff observed her with interest, but, himself reserved, he sought no opportunity of accosting her. —  Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar
• The actions of the Boers show that it is not in their power seriously to incommode either the one or the other. —  Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900

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