discomfit

The weed that is now a discomfiting menace was once a rarity.

And the revisions pertaining to Jocasta’s marriage to Laius, who was killed in a car accident decades before, bring a discomfiting and topical contemporary edge.

His calm and deadpan delivery of Teddy’s crazy talk gives it a discomfiting authority.

The author says Prescott was in a "class of his own when it came to discomfiting Charles".

I came away from “Notes to John” feeling discomfited and saddened — though literary scholars may read it as providing context with which to deconstruct a great writer’s oeuvre.