discomfit

The discomfit of his rivals has been a political gift to Macron.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2022

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

Or he could frankly offer his aid to this Dutchman, who would certainly jump at any method, however unscrupulous, by which to discomfit his rival.

From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford

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

The dispute waxes hot; the calm dignity of Teucer easily discomfits the Spartan braggart, who departs to bring aid.

From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb

“Mr. Cerimedo never had the authorization to represent ... the presidency, the government or my family,” a deeply discomfited Paz said in Facebook message last month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

Easily discomfited when danced into corners from which the only escape is introspection.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 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

But when Lazlo held out his arm, he could only blink, discomfited.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Change is discomfiting but America’s willingness to forge ahead is crucial to the democratic experiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

Her sister Jessica advised a subtle but discomfiting grip change after a two-over-par opening 73 in which she repeatedly lost drives to the right.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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

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