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discomfortable

/ dɪsˈkʌmfətəbəl; -ˈkʌmftə- /

adjective

  1. archaic.
    tending to deprive of mental or physical ease or comfort
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Now, as the Trump era unfolds, Vashon is confronting what many parts of liberal America feel, a discomfortable blend of realization, determination and fear.

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Descriptors such as petulant, impatient, “discomfortable†to work with, difficult, autocratic, and brusque have all been used to describe their various leadership styles.

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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.

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Be sure to see the little Nohant domestic theatre, by the way—and judge what a part it played in that discomfortable house.

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However, as nothing more could be elicited on the subject, he dismissed Tracy, bidding him neglect nothing to recover the parcel, and inexpressibly vexed that his own stratagem to get rid of this "discomfortable cousin," had prevented his receiving the important bequest.

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