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Recent Examples of discommode Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen were similarly discommoded at mealtime in public settings. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discommode
Verb
  • Getty Images Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 265 pounds.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At least 16 people were arrested for allegedly crowding, obstructing and incommoding another person and one was arrested for alleged defacement during a planned act of civil disobedience.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • All were booked on charges of crowding, obstructing, or incommoding at the offices.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 16 Jan. 2020
Verb
  • The acting didn’t bother me, but the directing did.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • If the odds of winning the lottery are so low, why do people bother playing?
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Be patient and calm, Work zones are not there to inconvenience you.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Although the subsequent road closures inconvenienced a small, vocal minority – among them DJ Diplo and comedian Chris Rock ‒ most attendees happily splashed through the mud until the roads dried up.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The spectacle troubled some of Britain’s most prominent legal authorities.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Obviously, it's been troubled since mortgage rates went up.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vic and Cali hadn’t wanted a wedding, but this had disturbed Vic’s parents.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Two players take on the roles of a brother and sister who are searching for their missing buddies on an island inhabited by some rather disturbing monsters.
    Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These conditions can make fires spread more easily and be more difficult to put out.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The company has put out two updates in recent months to try and reverse that behavior.
    Avital Pardo, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Discommode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discommode. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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