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discomfit

[dis-kuhm-fit] / dɪsˈkʌm fɪt /


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Warhol also embraced camp as a personal style, performing a theatrical effeminacy that equated to a strategic queerness designed to discomfit those among his contemporaries who held him to be "too swish."

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2022

And the spectacle of nonviolent suffering in a just cause had the potential to discomfit witnesses and render violent and intimidating reprisals less effective.

From Scientific American • Feb. 3, 2021

She raised a cry certain to discomfit partisans.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2020

It is not proselytising or alarmist to tell us the raw truth about what is happening to the world, however much it might discomfit us.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2018

Besides, he did not know how well he could fulfill the desires of the Elector by teaching nothing that would tend to discomfit established religion.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph




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