discomfit

Example Sentences

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The discomfit of his rivals has been a political gift to Macron.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2022

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

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

Telling herself that the only means to forfend senility was to be actively engaged in mental diversions, she nonetheless sought any diversion that she could, to ignore, if not discomfit, this paranoid erosion of sanity.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)