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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--discommode This week's theme: red-herring words. discommode (dis-kuh-MOD) verb tr. To put to inconvenience. [From French discommoder, from dis- + commode (convenient). Ultimately from Indo-European root med- (to take appropriate measures) that is also the source of medicine, modern, modify, modest, and modulate.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "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. X-Bonus My life is my message. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

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