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  • verb Present participle of discommode.

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Examples

  • Maurice bowed stiffly across the table; Herries replied in kind, without discommoding himself.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • Beyond the fact that he was gravely discommoding me at present, he wasn't usefully eating rats and he wasn't aesthetically pleasing, either, being a sort of drab gray with darker splotches.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • The explosion of a boat on the Hudson, discommoding for a time the existing line, offered to Drew the favorable opportunity for which he was looking, and as was characteristic he at once improved his chance.

    Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

  • The three men were all shorter than I, but thick-set and powerfully made, and struggle as I might I soon had to own myself beaten, and was borne to the floor, one holding my head, another my feet, and the third discommoding me very much by sitting on my middle.

    Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

  • M. le Duc, you behold me exceedingly distressed at the discommoding of your household.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • "But I am afraid of discommoding you, my dear young lady, and can easily sleep on board, though I will take advantage of your kindness now, to rest on your bed for a short time."

    Woman As She Should Be or, Agnes Wiltshire Mary E. Herbert

  • But some courses of action are too discommoding and obnoxious to others to allow of this course being pursued.

    democracy and Education : an Introduction to the Philosophy of Education 1916

  • But some courses of action are too discommoding and obnoxious to others to allow of this course being pursued.

    Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education John Dewey 1905

  • It was impossible to do this without discommoding the legs of the company and annoying them beyond measure.

    The Blue Pavilions Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • "I feared he was discommoding you," ventured the Countess, elegantly apologetic

    Bunker Bean Harry Leon Wilson 1903

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