discomfit

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

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

There lieth beneath the fortress and the forest a parlous passage wherein dwells the fiend, the which I have much discomfit of.

From A Knyght Ther Was by Robert F. Young

But in all dealings with Saudi Arabia, Mr. Biden should stand by the principles that Khashoggi so passionately cared for, however much it discomfits the pouty monarch in Riyadh.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022

Seeking the worth in art that discomfits you—while vigorously criticizing its faults—isn’t a social studies sideline to your culturally engaged existence.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2019

Whatever it meant in the past, and however it discomfits the present, the Aeneid has, alas, always anticipated the future.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

“Little Panic” grips and discomfits in the best way.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2018

Mrs. Cibber still discomfits the melting Mrs. Porter by a tenderness even greater than the best of Belvideras could dispense.

From Shadows of the Stage by William Winter

It felt a bit like being in a group therapy session in which you alone are the primary and discomfited focus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

And, often, getting discomfited slightly helps that process along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Easily discomfited when danced into corners from which the only escape is introspection.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024

But more than the medal, it would have been the aura the Scot seemed to run with that might have discomfited him.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

Bellatrix said nothing, but looked, for the first time, a little discomfited.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

But new clubs can lead to unexpected outcomes and, under the pressure of competition, that can become discomfiting.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

He did not have to ask how his editorial oversight had failed to spot a discomfiting level of undisclosed A.I. use.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

There is, therefore, a discomfiting sense of voyeurism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

I never expected to be someone who hired others to maintain my image, and at first the idea was discomfiting.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama