discomfiting

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

There is, therefore, a discomfiting sense of voyeurism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

But when the movie reaches an admirable capacity with its ideas about parenthood, authoritarianism, mortality and connection, it falters in bringing everything to the reverberating conclusion its discomfiting first two-thirds merits.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

This second rationale is discomfiting because it appears to target speech on the basis of its content, which is rarely permitted under the First Amendment.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 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