discomfit

Example Sentences

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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’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

Buail to strike, trom heavy—trom-buail to smite sore, discomfit.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander