discomfit

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

She raised a cry certain to discomfit partisans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2020

It’ll discomfit, even if that discomfiture is being given a beauty so naked that you suddenly can’t pretend you don’t have a soul.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2019

Telling herself that the only means to forfend senility was to be actively engaged in mental diversions, she nonetheless sought any diversion that she could, to ignore, if not discomfit, this paranoid erosion of sanity.

From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills

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

Seeking the worth in art that discomfits you—while vigorously criticizing its faults—isn’t a social studies sideline to your culturally engaged existence.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2019

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

“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

But more than the medal, it would have been the aura the Scot seemed to run with that might have discomfited him.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

The result is both thought-provoking and readable, though Willis Aronowitz's frankness has provoked a lot of discomfited responses.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022

That spirit alarmed and discomfited many Europeans, toff and peasant alike.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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

I never expected to be someone who hired others to maintain my image, and at first the idea was discomfiting.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama