as in annoying
causing difficulty, discomfort, or annoyance
such incommoding features of air travel as flight delays and time-consuming security screenings
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as in weighing
to cause discomfort to or trouble for
the innkeeper tried to hide how much the request incommoded them
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incommoding
Adjective
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Each individual increase feels tolerable – annoying, maybe, but not catastrophic.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2026 -
The consequences of all this information range from mildly annoying to very serious.—
Larry Magid,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Lawmakers are now weighing how to balance climate goals with the need to maintain a stable and affordable fuel supply to power the present.—
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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For CFOs weighing corporate footprint decisions, Griffin’s Miami playbook offers a compelling case study.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Instead of posing questions about geography or world affairs, the test asked him to tackle hypothetical situations, from the frustrating to the dangerous.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Travelers said the long lines have been frustrating and are looking forward to TSA officers getting paid again.—
Eva Andersen,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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So Pakistan is already in an awkward position because the Saudis are being attacked.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Lock down the logistics first The fastest way to kill trip momentum is skipping the awkward conversations.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
30 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The touching moment was shared on the TikTok account @rosiethestaffygirl, capturing the instant Rosie—a Staffordshire bull terrier rescue—worked up the nerve to confront something that had clearly been troubling her.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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But besides defiant behavior or anger issues, there are other behaviors that indicate that something deeper is troubling your teen.—
Staff Author,
Parents,
9 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Why are two players whose college careers, at the moment, are over bothering to put their names out there for other programs to see?—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
31 Mar. 2026
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Throughout the day, jot down any worries that are bothering you, particularly the ones that keep popping up.—
Andee Tagle,
NPR,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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In both Dream Scenario and The Drama, Borgli sides with the maligned, framing those who cast judgment as shrewish and needling (exemplified in The Drama with a deliciously irritating performance from Alana Haim).—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
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Here's where things get a bit irritating.—
Justin Pot,
PC Magazine,
13 Mar. 2026
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But Mullin will simultaneously be putting out fires that senior officials say were set by Noem and Lewandowski, a special government employee who is reported to have engaged in an extramarital affair with Noem since 2019.—
Anna Giaritelli,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Mar. 2026
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Pahlavi’s team began putting out various plans to further erode the regime’s authority, calling on workers to strike and releasing a QR code through which defectors in the state security forces could sign on to his project, which Pahlavi claimed had elicited fifty thousand responses.—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Incommoding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incommoding. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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