Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inconvenient; troublesome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious.
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- adjective Not
commodious ;uncomfortable .
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Examples
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Besides a rich and colorful history that has the makings of a high-ratings cable television series, Mexico's discommodious combination of poverty and corruption that are exacerbated by its "special relationship" with the United States, make it pretty exceptional indeed.
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Notwithstanding the enemy no lesse couragious, would not yet leaue the strond, so that some of our souldiours and mariners lost their liues before the enemy would retire: for the place was discommodious, and hard to lande, but most of the enemy were slaine, to the number of 30. or 36. and the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ordinarily, our lads take the whole web of tartan cloth, of twenty ells or more, and coil it once round their middle, there belting it, and bring the free end up on the shoulder to pin with a brooch -- not a bad fashion for display and long marches and for sleeping out on the hill with, but somewhat discommodious for warm weather.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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"I did -- if it will not be discommodious," he answered.
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916
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And what might be the origin of this discommodious Deus ex machina?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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And what might be the origin of this discommodious Deus ex machina?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Notwithstanding the enemy no lesse couragious, would not yet leaue the strond, so that some of our souldiours and mariners lost their liues before the enemy would retire: for the place was discommodious, and hard to lande, but most of the enemy were slaine, to the number of 30. or 36. and the Gouernor his right leg was shot off, sitting on his horse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Climates: which assertion agreeable to the opinion of the olde Writers, is found and set out in our authour of the Sphere, Iohannes de Sacrobosco, where hee plainely saith, that without the seuenth Climate, which is bounded by a Parallel passing at fiftie degrees in Latitude, all the habitation beyonde is discommodious and intolerable.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
milosrdenstvi commented on the word discommodious
A friend told me once that he had been referred to, by an aunt, as a 'discommodious jackanapes'. That, in my opinion, is just awesome.
August 15, 2008