discomfit

Before June of this year, he had not come out to his parents as gay, and worried the accusations might discomfit his family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 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

Compare, in this story, manœuvre, discomfit, mischief. juncture.

From Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore

The company’s trajectory is unlikely to change as long as uncertainty over the deal discomfits advertisers, the main source of Twitter’s revenue.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

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

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

With a handful of men she overthrows a multitude, and with a sudden amazement she discomfits a camp.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

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

But he was discomfited by the capricious bounces of last month’s US Open at Pinehurst, a rare event where he failed to trouble the leaderboard operatives.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024

I’m discomfited, in short, by the Muskian spectacle.

From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2023

It had always discomfited him, the pleasure she took in being mistaken for mixed-race.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

“Giant” is a probing character study that raises the discomfiting question of how a man of intelligence and imagination could hold such atavistic and pernicious views.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Once we move to the “Mother” sequence, we’ve started to acclimate to the movie’s discomfiting rhythms — which is good considering that, if anything, Timothea and Lilith’s relationship with their mom is even frostier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025

The nested Pythagorean solids also made no allowance for the existence of the Earth’s moon, and Galileo’s discovery of the four large moons of Jupiter was also discomfiting.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan