discommode

[ dis-kuh-mohd ]

verb (used with object)

, dis·com·mod·ed, dis·com·mod·ing.

1. to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.

discommode

/ ˌdɪskəˈməʊd /

verb

1. tr to cause inconvenience or annoyance to; disturb

Derived Forms

• ˌdiscomˈmodious, adjective
• ˌdiscomˈmodiously, adverb

Other Words From

• discom·modi·ous adjective
• discom·modi·ous·ly adverb
• discom·modi·ous·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of discommode¹

First recorded in 1650–60; from French discommoder, equivalent to dis- dis- ¹ + -commoder, verbal derivative of commode “convenient”; commode

Example Sentences

It enacts the experience, purposefully discommoding that part of the audience that has long expected plays to gratify their emotional pleasures and endorse their sense of moral righteousness.

From Los Angeles Times

The reason that they feel discommoded is that now, many years on, many of their lethal activities are being investigated for the first time ever.

From The Guardian

I recall my keen disappointment during the 1964 convention when President Johnson insisted that the Freedom Democrats be rejected, in the interest of not discommoding white Southerner voters.

From New York Times

Then, again, one could legalize certain narcotics to discommode the drug dealers and adopt Steve Forbes’s flat tax to fill up the Treasury.

From Wall Street Journal

Blatter had false money thrown at him and he looked most discommoded.

From The Guardian