discomfit
Example Sentences
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Once we move to the “Mother” sequence, we’ve started to acclimate to the movie’s discomfiting rhythms — which is good considering that, if anything, Timothea and Lilith’s relationship with their mom is even frostier.
From Los Angeles Times
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".
From BBC
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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