"discomforting" meaning in English

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      "form": "more discomforting",
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      "form": "most discomforting",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "discomfortingly"
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Chris Brook, Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile, Unruly Cities?, page 4:",
          "text": "After all, disorderliness can be very discomforting and dangerous.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Roberta L. Coles, Race and Family: A Structural Approach, page 154:",
          "text": "The authors speculated that discussions about discrimination were more discomforting than discussions instilling ethnic pride, so parents refrained from initiating such discussions unless precipitated by a specific discriminatory incident.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Spencer A. Rathus, Jeffrey S. Nevid, Psychology and the Challenges of Life, page 409:",
          "text": "So now a slightly more discomforting slide is shown: one of the nurse aiming the needle toward someone's bare arm.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Causing discomfort."
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  "word": "discomforting"
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        "present participle and gerund of discomfort"
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  "word": "discomforting"
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          "ref": "2006, Chris Brook, Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile, Unruly Cities?, page 4:",
          "text": "After all, disorderliness can be very discomforting and dangerous.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Roberta L. Coles, Race and Family: A Structural Approach, page 154:",
          "text": "The authors speculated that discussions about discrimination were more discomforting than discussions instilling ethnic pride, so parents refrained from initiating such discussions unless precipitated by a specific discriminatory incident.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Spencer A. Rathus, Jeffrey S. Nevid, Psychology and the Challenges of Life, page 409:",
          "text": "So now a slightly more discomforting slide is shown: one of the nurse aiming the needle toward someone's bare arm.",
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        "Causing discomfort."
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