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For my own sanity—as morally discomfiting as it is—I'm planning to play along.

While comparisons are obvious, Ryan's use of the discomfiting capital-T "they" got me thinking: who exactly were "they"?

Most of the time, subtle cues—a flag, for instance—have a powerful, discomfiting pull on our behavior.

The GOP debates have already been entertaining, unpredictable, and discomfiting for the candidates.

The silence that followed this non-committal remark was most discomfiting.

The idea of more was discomfiting, yet it was possible that this was only the first of a travelling company.

He attacks the duke's nephew, who was breaking many a lance and sorely discomfiting the Greeks.

No one being there, the goldsmith went elsewhere in search of his wife, leaving the scholar to a discomfiting solitude.

Eustace had no difficulty in justifying the customs of Luxeuil, and in discomfiting the violence of his accuser.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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