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

Or he could frankly offer his aid to this Dutchman, who would certainly jump at any method, however unscrupulous, by which to discomfit his rival.

From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram