discommode (dis-kuh-MOD) verb tr.

   To put to inconvenience.

[From French discommoder, dis- + commode, convenient.]

   "Much art today has abandoned the ambition to please the viewer
   aesthetically. Instead, it seeks to shock, discommode, repulse,
   proselytize, or startle."
   Roger Kimball, Art Without Beauty, The Public Interest (Washington, DC),
   Apr 15, 1997.

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