discomfit

Before June of this year, he had not come out to his parents as gay, and worried the accusations might discomfit his family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

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’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

One half will fall upon this fellow Grandgousier and his people, and easily discomfit him at the first assault.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

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 latest furor has put Mr. Kendall under a spotlight in a way that discomfits the tight-lipped and camera-shy lawyer.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2015

It is simply an exercise of intellectual gladiatorship, in which the man who has the most skill and muscle discomfits his antagonist.

From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

A discomfited Scheffler could not sustain his challenge and Xander Schauffele capitalised to land his first major.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024

And, often, getting discomfited slightly helps that process along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

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

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024

“Ay, ay!” said she, looking at the discomfited and envious Sarah, with delight.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

And sometimes that gaze is just discomfiting, full stop.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 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

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