discomfit

Example Sentences

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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

She raised a cry certain to discomfit partisans.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2020

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

They had innocently intrusted themselves to Jones on the strength of his self-made reputation; and now undoubtedly were taking all this fuss and discomfit quite as part of "roughing it."

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward