discomfit
Example Sentences
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The weed that is now a discomfiting menace was once a rarity.
And the revisions pertaining to Jocasta’s marriage to Laius, who was killed in a car accident decades before, bring a discomfiting and topical contemporary edge.
His calm and deadpan delivery of Teddy’s crazy talk gives it a discomfiting authority.
The author says Prescott was in a "class of his own when it came to discomfiting Charles".
From BBC
I came away from “Notes to John” feeling discomfited and saddened — though literary scholars may read it as providing context with which to deconstruct a great writer’s oeuvre.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
