discomfit
Example Sentences
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He had not yet come out to his parents as gay, and worried such accusations might discomfit his family.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023
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
But if Mr. Torn’s performance is meant to discomfit us in the same way Swan’s performances discomfited them, I’m not sure the equivalence is a justification.
From New York Times • May 2, 2019
It was with difficulty that Garrofat choked down his rage at this latest failure of his plans to discomfit or destroy the prince.
From Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore by Laughlin, Burren
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