discomfiture
Example Sentences
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Michel Barnier, who negotiated the terms of Brexit on behalf of the EU, said he took no pleasure in Britain’s discomfiture.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2022
There was much cheering in Pakistan over India's discomfiture at the turn of events, said Raza Ahmad Rumi, a political commentator, who teaches at Ithaca College in New York.
From Reuters • Aug. 23, 2021
His own discomfiture was heightened by learning CBS had experimented with such aerial views of holes at a godforsaken tour event.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 8, 2020
That pays off superbly as the air thins, and the surrealism of the terrain, the hallucinatory wanderings of oxygen-robbed brains and the discomfiture of sapped bodies converge cinematically.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2018
This was such a great fall, that I said in discomfiture, “O, more than that.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
