Comforts and Discomforts

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Comforts noun - Things that make you comfortable and at ease.

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Discomforts is an antonym for comforts.

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Comforts is an antonym for discomforts.

Stealth Pun: "Pen Is Envy." One of the more mundane discomforts for women in Gilead is that skin lotions and moisturizers are forbidden as vanity products, a microcosm of the general harshness of a life without human comforts.

Source: Literature / The Handmaid's Tale

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